Have you ever gone to an art museum or a fancy restaurant that has art around with your spouse or maybe a group of friends? You all are looking at the same painting. One looks at it and says “I don’t get it..this is just a bunch of chaos…no real rhyme or reason to it and it looks like a mess”, but yet the other says “look at the brilliance behind this…how calculated the strokes are how absolutely beautiful it is”
One painting…..two different people. As moms I believe we are the one looking at the painting of our lives saying that what we have is a bunch of chaos…what we have has no rhyme or reason and it looks like a mess. I am here to tell you that that is not the case.
Ephesians 2:10 “For we are God’s MASTERPIECE created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do”
Wow…think about that for a minute. We are God’s masterpiece. Do you make things with your hands? When you first started doing that thing was it easy? I love to knit…hey I know one stitch and I can make scarves and blankets…but I love it. When I made my first blanket it was all crooked and there where holes where I missed a stitch…but when my son saw it he told me it was the most softest blanket he ever saw and felt. He looked past the flaws of the blanket and found true beauty in it. God knew us before we were born…He formed you in your mother’s womb. What do you think when you think of a masterpiece? I think of art, something that you cannot put a price on because it is so important …something that has meaning..something that tells a story..something that has beauty in between the lines.
The verse says “to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do”….God knew along what our plan was…He wrote our story, He fashioned us to do exactly what we are doing now. We may not have chosen all the things that God had planned for us, but God’s grace is so deep and so wide that He directs us right back to the path. I like to call those detours.
I was looking up some painting terms as I was thinking about this blog. Sometimes you get a better idea of why some people see things differently. Here are a few of the terms I saw that spoke right to the situation and right to the Ephesians 2:10.
Catalyst or Accelerator–Additive to paint to speed the cure, give better recoatability, better durability to weather and provides gloss.
So in other words. If we add the catalyst of accelerator of the Word of God and the Holy spirit to our lives as moms we have better coatability (ability to cover our family in love and grace), better durability to weather (ability to stand strong in the storm no matter what) and provides gloss (allows you to smile no matter the situation)
Color Retention–The ability of a color to retain its true shade over an extended period of time. A color that is color fast.
What?! So if we stay in prayer, stay in God’s word and stay in the Holy spirt we will have color retention. We won’t show fading we won’t show wear and we will stay bright and vibrant for others to see.
Cure–the chemical reaction of a coating during the drying process, leaving it insoluble.
Okay this one got me pretty good. Of course there are times you need to look something up. So I googled insoluble. It mean incapable of being dissolved. So we stay in God’s Word, Prayer and the Holy Spirt we cannot dissolve. We will not melt into the worlds way of thinking or the worlds choices for our children.
Those are just some of the words I came across, but they were the ones that stood out to me the most.
So mom, remember you are God’s masterpiece created in Christ Jesus to do the good works that God prepared in advance for you. We should never look at our lives as a mess because someone else may be looking at it from a different perspective. I would like to say our lives are a beautiful mess. They are our lives, God designed us to be great moms and you are the best mom you can be to the children God has given to you. Remember that the chaos and messy lines that you might think your life is, are beautiful and integrate and what God has planned. We need to look past that and look at the joys in our lives and our journeys as mothers.
So mom…you are a beautiful mess…embrace it and remember who you are in God.
–Beth