April 22nd-Morning | SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

Ever want to make something ugly become beautiful? Eccles 3:11 (NLT) says, “God has made everything beautiful for its own time.” I’m a frustrated artist. This one time I “painted” a picture of a farm in a nature setting because I like staring at nature. As the picture was developing, I realized it was neither nature nor farm. Frustrated, I handed the “painting” to my wife who is a real fine artist. She began to retouch it with her imagination and artistic hand. She added some plants, trees, clouds, and mountains. She put some depth into it and presto (literally) it was a masterpiece. There wasn’t a trace of my original drawing.

This reminds me that whatever I’ve made of my life – even if I’d made a mess of it – if I place my life in God’s hand, the hand of the Master can do something beautiful with my mess. There’s a wonderful song that says, “Something beautiful, something good. All my confusions He understood. All I have to offer Him is brokenness and strife. And He made something beautiful of my life.” Give your life to Jesus and He’ll turn your life into something beautiful - a masterpiece.