My devotional today reminded me of a song I used to love as a child! Make Me A Portrait Of Jesus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP_rsIfPlws
(funny...this picture looks like a Polaroid...the irony of the instant)
I love creating things...and when I make something I know how I want it to turn out in my mind, so sometimes I have to go back and remake it if it is not as I imagined in the end. Some people get frustrated with that and that is understandable, but I think that is kind-of like the perfection God asks of us...to allow Him to keep painting, chiseling, molding until the masterpiece of us is finished.
Just like God paints every new sunrise and sunset, He works on us everyday if we allow Him the canvas of our life.
The lyrics to Portrait of Jesus:
Father, You are the artist with canvas and paint
Color my life with Your blue skies and rain
Paint seasons of sunshine and places of pain
'Til I am a picture of Him
Make me a portrait of Jesus
Paint Your love over my sin
Let Your life shine like a light through mine
'Til I am a picture of Him
Lord, I am a canvas for You to create
Capture the look of Your Son in my face
And when You paint problems, Lord
Frame them with grace (love that!)
'Til I am the picture of Him
Lord, You paint my future
according to plan
I trust You though sometimes
I don't understand :)
The rainbow of reasons that flows
From Your hand
To make me a picture of Him
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