The MasterArtist

Imagine you’re in a room. The four walls are black, and there’s someone knocking at the door.

You don’t want to let anyone in, so for a couple of days, you just live with this knocking.

After a while, you decide to open the door with the key necklace around your neck, close to your heart.

This artist comes in.

You watch as this artist sets out his tins of paints on the floor, and paints the entire room red. All the walls, the roof and even the floor.

He sits with you for a while and talks to you.

After the paint dries, He paints white over the red walls.

Now, the entire room is white, the four walls, the roof and the floor.

He sits down and you talk some more, he shares some food with you, he laughs with you.

He stands up again and he opens these tins of different coloured paint. Some yellow, red, green, orange and pink…every colour you can’t imagine.

This artist begins to paint the most beautiful art piece you can ever imagine.

It looks so good, you can hardly believe it!

However, after a while, you become bored, you walk around impatiently. You sit at the corner for a few minutes, and then walk around again.

Somehow, your feet knocks over a tin of paint. The paint splatters all over the floor.

You quickly apologize and you look to see his reaction.

He takes his paint brush and dabs it into the spilled paint. He then uses the colour to add onto the masterpiece, drawing something new, something beautiful.

He talks to you while he paints. Sometimes he keeps quiet, waiting for you to talk to him. He wants to hear you while he paints, talk to you, and make you laugh. And sometimes, you do talk, but then you get impatient again.

He is taking way too long with this painting.

You walk around the room and sometimes, you even start running, and on the way, you knock more and more paint tins over. Blues, yellows, oranges, splattering all over the floor, huge splat of orange, and they make such a mess.

Yet, every single time, he checks if you’re okay, patiently takes His paint brush, dabs into those colours, and starts painting again.

Every time you run around like a clumsy parrot, knocking over all these tins, sometimes falling flat on the ground, he patiently does it again. He comes to check if you’re okay, cleans you up, takes his paint brush, and carries on painting.

At the end, you think you’re down and out, and you’ve stopped talking to him altogether, even though he wants to talk to you, make you laugh.

He turns around, puts his paint brush down, looks at you and smiles…He opens his arms wide, introducing you to this painting.

“So, what do you think?” He asks.

It’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen. It’s a masterpiece, it’s wonderful, it’s unbelievable.

That is what happens:

Every time we sin, it’s knocking over a tin of paint. At first, it looks like a mess. The blue paint goes everywhere on the floor, it’s horrible. You get paint all over yourself, you get hurt in the process and it gets messy!

But then, your Creator patiently takes a bit of that paint, and uses it to do something beautiful.

Now the thing is, this painting takes time because we keep knocking things over. Hence, every time this happens, He takes that paint, that mistake, and makes it beautiful. A painting takes time and this Artist wants to do it perfectly.

God will be there, in the same room, in your life, talking to you, making you laugh, because He wants to hear you laugh. Sometimes, He’ll keep quiet, waiting to hear you speak too. And what you won’t see, is Him smiling whenever you talk to Him. He’ll gently smile while He paints.

When He’s done, He’ll put His paint brush down and say,

“Look at this wall. You’re a masterpiece.”

That’s our God. That’s our Father. The Master Artist.

“We know that in all things God works for good with those who love Him, those whom He has called according to His purpose”- Romans 8: 28

“Jesus answered him, “You do not understand now what I am doing, but you will understand later.”- John 13:7

"What no one ever saw or heard,

what no one ever thought could happen,

is the very thing God prepared for those who love Him." - 1 Corinthians 2:9

It starts with a black room, filled with sin. Then, accepting that Jesus died for us, His death for our sin.

Then, it turns white. We have been saved by God, and we have grace.

It's going to be beautiful,

you just may not see it yet.