Painting

For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, Plans to prosper and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord. and I will bring you back from captivity. Jeremiah 24: 11-14

Claude Monet, the famous painter constructed a 3 panel painting in which he named 'Water Lillie's."  The massive feature measuring 6 feet by 57 feet, now hangs panel to panel in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. When you see the painting on the ground floor you are about 4 feet away, and to me, it did not look anything but a bunch of paint splashed on a canvas and smeared around. I remember thinking why and the world would this be one of the main attractions. After going up stairs I noticed a large gathering of people standing on a catwalk, I walked over I looked down and saw the massive painting from several hundred feet away. To say it was breathtaking would be an understatement. From far away you could see that the smeared paint became an intricate painting of flowers and a pond. It was beautiful and you could not walk away.

Your life is like this painting, right now all you see is the close up version of it. But God sees the whole painting. His plan is to make all trials and tribulations beautiful in time. Sometimes we need to take a step back and know that one day we will see what God has orchestrated.