Do you remember fingerpainting?
I haven't done it in a long time...maybe since Kindergarten...but I remember it was fun! I remember mixing colors...like blue and red to make purple or yellow and red to make orange. What a discovery! With a single stroke of my fingers, a new color could be created. A picture could emerge from little blobs of paint.
I remembered my childhood fingerpainting experiences this week when I read a friend's comments on Facebook about her daughter's response to fall. Her daughter (who is about five years old, I think) wanted to know if God painted the leaves with a paintbrush. The little girl said He is all "mixey" because there is still green from the spring...and expressed a genuine appreciation for His mixey-ness. :)
With single strokes of creativity, God can change the leaves and the sunsets...and with a single stroke of Life through Christ, He can change our lives. Here's what today's passage said:
It was sin that made death so frightening
and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage,
its destructive power.
But now in a single victorious stroke of
Life,
all three—sin, guilt, death—
are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ.
Thank God!
With all this going for us,
With all this going for us,
my dear, dear friends,
stand your ground.
And don't hold back.
Throw yourselves into the work of the Master,
confident that nothing you do for him
is a waste of time or effort.
What's interesting about God's work in our lives is that we're part of it, too. You and I aren't lifeless globs of paint in the fingers of a Kindergartener. No--we are active participants in the "mixey-ness" of God's creation. He transforms us into something incredible, but we have the ability to throw ourselves into His work, allowing Him shape us into the people He's called us to be.
Your life is better when you let Him wipe out sin, guilt and death...and with just a single stroke of Life, create a masterpiece.
Tomorrow: 2 Corinthians 1-4
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