"When life starts out it's like a blank
canvas, but as you live your life it is given many new colorful experiences and
relationships so by the time you die the canvas is a beautifully colored
masterpiece."
Adore this beautifully quote by someone,
didn’t get to find out who wrote this.
But I’m not 100% agree it though. Yes! Our lives are like canvas and after years past, it becomes a master piece. But our lives don’t just start as a blank canvas.
Psalm 139:13-16
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
God has a special and unique plan and purpose for each of us, He knows you even before you were born.
But God do give us the freedom to choice to follow His will or not.
Just like the coloring book, there’s outline, simple or complicate, special or plain. When you get your coloring paper, you get to choose how to finish it, rush, slowing, carefully, absent-minded, planned, randomly, monotonous color, creativity colorful one or just leaves it blank and the like.
Same as our life, how will you live you lives and live the best of you, for yourself, for others, for the communities, the nation, the globe. Who do not want a blessed life? Or become blessing of others? How we can accomplish the plan that God put into our precious lives.
Michael Jr. is in Winston-Salem, NC and meets a high school music director with a voice that stole the show. Watch out for 1:40.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVSTKpJBq-8
We always know what we are doing; what about when you know why we do it. It makes a total different story and result. Like the first time when Michael asks the music director to sing a song. Well, he surely can sing. But something makes his singing changed dramatically. Michael asks the director to image that your uncle just got out from the jail, and you were shot at the back when you were a kid, and then asks him to sing the same song again.
I found many bible versions that so delightful that I have to share with you.
Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
God will provide what you need.
Matthew 6:34
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
No worry about tomorrow, everything is in His hand.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Have faith in Him alone.
Psalm 90:12
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Count the blessings and give thanks.
Proverbs 27:1
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Mark 9:23
And Jesus said to him, “if you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Believing is seeing.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Wow!
Psalm 16:11
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
I’ll follow Him.
Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Don’t hide the light of God’s glory form others.
Philippians 2:3-4
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
It’s not an easy job to achieve.
Luke 6:31
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
True!
2 Corinthians 9:8-11
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. As it is written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.” He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
Do ignore the gifts from God.
Genesis 12:1-20
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, ...
Answer God’s call.
3 John 1:11
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Behold!
But I’m not 100% agree it though. Yes! Our lives are like canvas and after years past, it becomes a master piece. But our lives don’t just start as a blank canvas.
Psalm 139:13-16
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
God has a special and unique plan and purpose for each of us, He knows you even before you were born.
But God do give us the freedom to choice to follow His will or not.
Just like the coloring book, there’s outline, simple or complicate, special or plain. When you get your coloring paper, you get to choose how to finish it, rush, slowing, carefully, absent-minded, planned, randomly, monotonous color, creativity colorful one or just leaves it blank and the like.
Same as our life, how will you live you lives and live the best of you, for yourself, for others, for the communities, the nation, the globe. Who do not want a blessed life? Or become blessing of others? How we can accomplish the plan that God put into our precious lives.
Michael Jr. is in Winston-Salem, NC and meets a high school music director with a voice that stole the show. Watch out for 1:40.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVSTKpJBq-8
We always know what we are doing; what about when you know why we do it. It makes a total different story and result. Like the first time when Michael asks the music director to sing a song. Well, he surely can sing. But something makes his singing changed dramatically. Michael asks the director to image that your uncle just got out from the jail, and you were shot at the back when you were a kid, and then asks him to sing the same song again.
I found many bible versions that so delightful that I have to share with you.
Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
God will provide what you need.
Matthew 6:34
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
No worry about tomorrow, everything is in His hand.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Have faith in Him alone.
Psalm 90:12
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Count the blessings and give thanks.
Proverbs 27:1
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Mark 9:23
And Jesus said to him, “if you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Believing is seeing.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Wow!
Psalm 16:11
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
I’ll follow Him.
Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Don’t hide the light of God’s glory form others.
Philippians 2:3-4
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
It’s not an easy job to achieve.
Luke 6:31
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
True!
2 Corinthians 9:8-11
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. As it is written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.” He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
Do ignore the gifts from God.
Genesis 12:1-20
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, ...
Answer God’s call.
3 John 1:11
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Behold!
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