The Paintbrush of the Creator
// May 9th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // My God, My Thoughts
In the post “Finding Faith” I really wanted to introduce the concept of how faith is more of a perception of reality rather than a choice to make. The enormity of what faith really is goes far beyond perception. We rarely think of who God really is, what he does on a daily basis, and why he does what he does.
God is the crafter of reality as we know it… every moment in time and all of the possibilities in that moment are available to him to use as he sees fit. From God’s perspective the impossible is non-existent, It takes God no more effort to perform the impossible than it does to perform the possible. both are his creation – something… from nothing.
I daydreamed the other day that God was a painter, and he was also my father… and I was a little 5 year old. I imagined that my father had a cozy room that he painted in. I went into his painting room one day to watch him paint as I often did… I sat and talked to him as he painted an amazing picture that I could only dream of painting. But today was different… today my father asked me to come close… he put his arm around me and placed his paintbrush in my hand… and said, “Let’s paint together today” at first I was afraid, I didn’t want to mess up his beautiful picture; but he held my hand as we painted together, he allowed me to make the stroke but he guided my hand in the right direction. He also asked what I wanted in the picture… so I told him of my dreams and we painted them together. Finally the picture was done and it was amazing and beautiful.
Having faith is just that, holding the paintbrush of the Creator, he steadies our hand, directs the stroke, but nonetheless we are still holding and painting with the very brush that painted us…
Tags: choice, Faith, God, pain, Painting, perception, perspective
