Paint, Repentance, Refocus

Today I reflect back on when my Mom came to visit us and how we wanted everything just perfect for her. We wanted to honor her, as she made many sacrifices to come and join us for our daughters graduation. One of the things we did was paint, we chose delightful pastels in green, blue, and caramel. After we painted nearly every room I looked at the edges and noticed that they weren't blended well. I felt a little discouraged as we had worked so hard only to end up having "light areas" between the edges of the upper wall and ceiling. As I sighed in frustration immediately the LORD spoke to me and said, "Don't focus on the imperfections, just enjoy the beauty of the colors on the walls." Who else but God can speak to a situation and bring such liberating revelation!
As I'am going through the book of I Kings there is a passage of Scripture that stands out to me and blessed me so. It is God's comments to Solomon regarding his father David. Now as human beings we sometimes are very good at spotting imperfections not just in ourselves, but others as well. I rejoice because truly God's ways are NOT our ways and His thoughts are NOT our thoughts. Read with me God's description of David to his son King Solomon I Kings 9:4a

As you follow me with integrity and godliness as David your father did... WOW! RRRRRRewind!!! Stop right here and think about you for a minute. If you are reading this God has already declared that you are fearfully and wonderfully made, but what is it, what imperfection(s) do you dwell on in your life that keeps you from enjoying who you and what you do? What devastating mistake(s) have you made that you can't quite take your focus off of? Please be encouraged today. Whatever it is or was stop beating yourself up. Did you repent? Yes?! Then guess what? God isn't focusing on where you've missed it in life, He's focusing on helping you to continue in Him and finishing well.
Think about this fact God knew about all the mistakes of David, but in the end God said David followed him in integrity and godliness. As we live a repentant lifestyle like David, learning from our mistakes and not living in them, and continuing on in Him we will be able to enjoy more fully who we are in Him, and this wonderful life He has given us. I believe that as we refocus and see the beauty we bring to God and not just the mistakes made, in the end God will have great things to say about us as well!

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