I had been praying…talking to God about how I want things to go…but it seemed a lot was not going the way I thought it should go…I only wanted good things…things I was sure would please Him…I would set my mind on them…pray about them…but they would not go the way I thought they should…or even they way I thought God would want them to go…this kept occurring.
One morning, while praying, I realized…He is not saying “No”. Instead He has been trying to get me to see things from His perspective…to see that He has a much bigger plan…His plan to do things in a different way…in ways I had not considered…It had not seemed that I would get what I was looking for if I continued down His path.
And then I had this thought…It’s like I’ve been painting in a little room called “My life the way I see it.” But God had been inviting me into a much larger room…the one where He is painting…”My life the way He sees it.” It s a really big room… a room of brilliant colors and endless possibilities…and…a room where I don’t know how things will work out…He is asking me to paint with Him… to trust Him…to let Him work out the details.
So sometimes, I still find myself painting away in a little room…a place where I have become preoccupied...again... with how I want things to go...trying really hard to get things just right…then I will hear His voice...often just a whisper above the noise of my life… “Don’t settle…Stop painting in these little rooms…they have such limitations…I am down the hall…painting a really big room…using broad bold strokes that extend beyond where you are able to see…Come…paint with Me.”
