Read Jeremiah 29:11, John 12:25-26, C.S. Lewis Miracles, Appendix B.

Life has been beautifully full lately.  Ever faithful, God has come alongside and walked us through it, giving us just enough peace and perspective to recognize our season of busyness as a blessing.

Tucked away in the book Miracles by C.S. Lewis, is a concept about a line. This line can be interpreted as a drawing God has crafted on a page which represents your life in relation to prayer. Images of this line have rocked my world!  I have been reflecting on God’s will in relation to a line like this.

God stroked my life into existence with his mighty pen, and I am living it. Not in a cheap, I am the main character in my own story way, but in a literal my life is the line on the page way, in a I am living the ink designs he crafted kind of way. Then comes the everyday question, how do I do God’s will? By staying close to those scribbles, those lines, he has crafted. What if those ink scribbles are his perfect will, and my own selfish desires take me off his perfect line? Instead of his masterpiece, lines appear in a different color (a longing for material possessions), or in a different direction on the page (a tendency towards a critical spirit), or perhaps I jump right off that page and into another drawing altogether (an ear or word of juicy gossip).

So my prayer is this: God give me the ability to give everything I have towards staying close to that line.

The other morning on our ride to school, my daughter asked me why God gave her eczema. Jeremiah 29:11 came to mind.  I asked her to open her bible and I encouraged her to reflect on that passage in relation to her eczema.

Her response was…Its gods plan to heal my eczema because he knows the plan for my life and has plans to prosper me, I wonder when that will happen. She says it in this excited way like she knows its going to happen and it could happen right now. Then I say… or maybe it’s not his will to heal it …and then the horror of what I just said sinks in and I say….. I am so sorry, did you just hear how mommy doubted God?  And she just smiled.

I long to look at the lines of my life and his prosperous plan just like my precious daughter did, with a excited chuckle and a hopeful look out the window, knowing that the story, the lines he has drawn for my life are beyond what I could ever imagine. All he asks me to do is cling to that line with a desperation that shows total dependence on him as my leader.

….Those who love their life lose it……. John 12:25 (NRSV)

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