We are GOD’s workmanship created in CHRIST JESUS unto good works that GOD has prepared in advance for us to walk in (Ephesians 2:10) but we are not just puppets, with GOD pulling the strings. When we accept JESUS to save us from our sins, we are given the HOLY SPIRIT who explains GOD’s ways and Words to us. We can know what GOD wants us to do because HE plants within us a desire to do what HE wants us to do (Philippians 2:13). Yet the LORD grants us the freedom to choose whether to act on what HE is urging us to do, or to resist HIS nudging and refuse to act (2 Timothy 2:19-21).
After hearing a message of how each of us are important in GOD’s overall plan and encouraged to express our part in GOD’s plan, I felt a nudge to draw but simply put a black dot on the paper. Then I reached for a yellow pencil and encircled the dot with a wavy line. Then I got another color and encircled the yellow line, then another and another and another each encircling the one before with a wavy line. The result resembled a flower so I took a green pencil and made a stem with a leaf. It was then GOD spoke and explained my purpose in HIS big plan.
“You are the dot, Sharon. Give out the word I give you. Those who hear MY word at your lips and receive them become the yellow wavy circle; they in turn will speak what they have learned; those who receive their words, are the next wavy line. On, and on, it goes. The stem speaks ME for I am the stem, the source of nourishment and life and you are to be rooted in the Word of GOD. As it is written I am the Word made flesh (John 1:14). If you speak what I say, you the little black dot, are the beginning of a fragrant flower that will honor ME.
“The things that you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to reliable men, who will be qualified to teach others also” (2 Timothy 2:1).
Acknowledge ME in all your ways, and I will direct your path (fingers to draw) (Proverbs 3:5-7a).
My little black dot doesn’t look like much, but it starts something that GOD will make beautiful. What GOD asks of you, may not seem like much either, but it has a purpose and if you will learn and obey you will glorify GOD.
Looking unto JESUS, the Author and Perfecter of my faith.
Hugs
Sharon
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