You are a masterpiece, not a sketch drawing

Did you know that it took Leonardo DaVinci 4 years to paint the Mona Lisa? 4 years for a 30" by 21" painting. Imagine what it would have been like to see the painting and the end of the second year?  Just a few strokes here and there.  You may have wondered if DaVinci even knew what he was doing, but he completed his work and now over 500 years later, it is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of all time.

In this past year, I have learned to respect the sovereignty of God. He has supreme power. He is the ruler over everything. Nothing happens without Him allowing it to. Understanding God's sovereignty does not mean that you will understand everything that happens in your life, but it allows you to trust that He knows best.

So what does this have to do with the Mona Lisa? God is the master painter. If you want proof just look at the world around you. Look at the oceans and the stars and mountains. His beauty is all around us. In the same way He created the galaxies, He is creating a masterpiece in you. There have been many times in my life when I couldn't figure out what God was doing in me. I questioned why He allowed certain things to happen and why He couldn't just give me what I prayed for. I even wondered at times if He knew what He was doing. But the bible tells us that everyday of our lives were written in His book before we lived the first one. He sees what the finished picture will be, when all we can see is a stroke of paint here or there. Every break up, bread down, broken heart, and broken dream are all just strokes of His brush on the painting He is creating in your life.

We grow tired of not understanding His plan and how everything will work together. But here is the incredible truth that you need to remind yourself of everyday; God loves you too much to make your life a sketch drawing, He is taking His time to create a masterpiece in you. He is not going to rush just because we want things to happen our way, right now. He created the heavens and the earth and everything on it in just 6 days, think how much more he must love you if He is spending this much time on the painting of your life.

God is sovereign. He is in control. He sees the painting, when all we can see are a few strokes of His brush. It may not make sense to us, but it doesn't have to. He works all things together for the good of those that love Him. All we have to do is relax and let Him create His masterpiece in us.