Coloring Outside the Lines

November 3, 2012

Remember when you were a kid and you were taught to color in the lines so that your picture would look pretty?  However, as you grew you may have been later taught to color outside the lines, be an individual, and not conform!  

I was thinking this morning about how reality is like coloring in the lines, especially when it comes to prayer.  When we pray for things like healing and we’re still hurting after the “amen,” or when we pray for a miracle to happen, but what we see sure doesn’t look like one, reality sets in, all within the lines of logic and reason…and we’re finished.  The picture is done.  

But…when we pray for healing and accept God’s timing and answer, and when we expect a miracle and never give hope of seeing it…and when we see things unseen as if they are seen, that’s like coloring outside the lines.  It’s messy, and it may not look like much, especially if we’re just beginning our coloring page. Then as our faith grows, and as our trust in HIS character settles in, that messy artwork takes shape into the coolest piece of grandeur ever seen – the makings of a picture of something that speaks to the soul – all from coloring outside the lines.

Reality may be the color you use to stay in the lines on those outlined pictures, but faith must be the color you choose to create true art without boundaries!

Lord, grant us faith to move your hand and allow you to work and create...your most awesome masterpieces…our lives.