Good evening readers;
I hope your having a relaxful evening .I love reading God s word,
and learning all I can how to deepen and strengthen my faith in Christ Jesus. One of my favorite ways to explain
the scriptures or a point that Jesus is making is do a object lesson, and I love
incorporating those into my blogs.
Quite a few years ago my husband and I and a mutual friend
of ours went into Boston for the day to do some sightseeing. One of the places
we stopped in to be Old South Church, it was a beautiful cathedral with
breathtaking high ceilings and exquisite stained glass windows. When you walked
in the doors, you could not help but be mesmerized by the beauty you saw in
these windows. Some of the windows told a story, each window, was part of the
journey.
Other windows were
so elaborate that fit so perfectly together to make the most amazing design of
colors you could set your eyes on. I had never seen anything so breathtaking in
all my life. I slowly looked around; I could not take my eyes off this sight. When
the sunlight hit these windows at just the right angles, they would come to
life, the light radiated through the colors and all I can say is its unlike any
experience.
Its like a artistic medium,
only when the light form the sun shines through these glass windows, can we
enjoy the full effect of its true breathtaking beauty. Our lives very much mirror
these stained glass windows. Each of us has jagged pieces of our lives, some
good, some bad. We tend to think in our mind that we are not worth anything of
beauty, that there is no way god could find use for us.
Its not until we are broken, in the right places, that Jesus
gathers each fragment, he takes ALL of us at our most vulnerable and weakest
times and he uses these moments to teach us, make us, and then they are used as
stepping stones for him to create his masterpiece.
Here is a quote by: Elizabeth Kobler Ross:” People are like
stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine, when the sun is out, but when
the darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within”
We can have gifts that Gods given us; we can want
to serve him, its only when the artist takes over the work. if there is no light , if there is no surrender
to his Will, if there is no wiliness, the colors are there the gifts are there.
When we honor and
serve him, his light shines through our daily lives, in all we say, in all we do.
When we take ourselves out of the equation and others can see how He is working
through us to be what he created us to be!
A image of his likeness, a example of his love and we will
radiate his beauty, just like those stained glass windows you gaze upon, the
next time you walk into a church or cathedral. Its not just a bunch of colors that form together, it’s not
just a picture that’s pretty, it’s what is shown when not only the sun, shines
through that window, but when the son shines through our lives, will the radiance
of his majesty be proclaimed!
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