The Masterpiece

I cannot tell you how much I love this quote! Because so many times in life when the road is rocky

and the path is hard to tread, it is so much easier to hear the loud words of the adversary telling us it's hopeless, and that we will never make it, than it is to hear the gentle, peaceful voice of the Lord whispering, "I am right here, just hold onto Me, and you will be okay. I won't leave you to face this alone."

Yes, life is hard, the seas are sometimes rough, and it's going to get even harder, the seas rougher. But we have to remember that we are never traveling alone. The view in front of us is only a tiny glimpse of the bigger picture that is our life, and we only see in part what God sees in full. Our eternal existence is a million-piece jigsaw puzzle, and we can only see the fifty, maybe one-hundred pieces that we have managed to fit together. It's like viewing a Leonardo Da Vinci painting with just a few brushstrokes. We have to be patient and wait on the Lord to reveal His individual plan for each of us, in His own time and His own way.

I promise that if we patient seek the Lord's will, trusting that He will reveal it, clinging to our faith and never give up or give in to the whispering of the adversary, His will will be revealed little by little. Then one day, the unfinished picture we only glimpse will finally be revealed to us as the masterpiece that Heavenly Father has been looking at all along :-)