Nov 1

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My Utmost for His Highest

“Why shouldn’t we go through heartbreaks?  Through those doorways God is opening up way of fellowship with His Son.  Most of us fall and collapse at the first grip of pain; we sit down on the threshold of God’s purpose and die away of self-pity, and so-called Christian sympathy will aid us to our death bed.  But God will not.  He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, and says – ‘Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.’  If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

–Oswald Chambers

–1 Corinthians 6:19

Faith

My Utmost for His Highest / painting

I didn’t realize until yesterday how much faith it takes me to paint, to follow Christ, and especially how much it takes to paint about Christ.  When I felt overwhelmed by anxieties, it was so easy to give up and stop painting because I feel like I haven’t made progress yet this season.  But I worked through my insecurities after realizing that it is the difficult days that will make me a painter or not – the days of testing, when I have to keep going even though I don’t feel like it.

Like in any work where you have to push through things holding you back, painting can start to feel robotic, like you’re just going through the motions to produce-produce-produce.  It is not this daily drudgery that gets to me but rather the big question of “Why on earth am I doing this???”

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