One of my favorite movies is Dreamwork's "The Prince of Egypt." One of the best songs in the whole movie is when Jethro, the high priest of Midian, is talking to Moses about God's ways. He says that "a single thread in a tapestry, though it's colors brightly shine, can never see its purpose in the pattern of the grand design."
I feel like a little thread right now. I was being stretched and pulled in all kinds of unpleasant and difficult directions, and I didn't know why. It just felt like unnecessary hardship, and I did not like it. The stress was starting to affect my mood, my health, and my interactions with other people. But now I'm in a new situation, and God is slowly starting to show me the bigger tapestry.
Have you ever though about how pain helps us appreciate joy all the more? Now, don't get me wrong, I'm no masochist, and I'm certainly not advocating intentionally causing pain. But truly, without difficulties in our lives, how will we ever know how to truly appreciate the good things? Without struggling for months through an incredibly difficult homestay situation, I would not appreciate what a good thing I have nearly as much as I do. You see, it took a change of perspective for me to appreciate what God was doing in my life.
That's the thing about threads. So often, from the thread's perspective, they don't understand why they're being twisted and pulled and stretched. But then, once you take a step back and look at the whole picture, you realize that it was necessary to make something beautiful. Are you being stretched and don't why? Ask God to show you the tapestry He's making. I promise you, it's something more beautiful than you could ever imagine.
I feel like a little thread right now. I was being stretched and pulled in all kinds of unpleasant and difficult directions, and I didn't know why. It just felt like unnecessary hardship, and I did not like it. The stress was starting to affect my mood, my health, and my interactions with other people. But now I'm in a new situation, and God is slowly starting to show me the bigger tapestry.
Have you ever though about how pain helps us appreciate joy all the more? Now, don't get me wrong, I'm no masochist, and I'm certainly not advocating intentionally causing pain. But truly, without difficulties in our lives, how will we ever know how to truly appreciate the good things? Without struggling for months through an incredibly difficult homestay situation, I would not appreciate what a good thing I have nearly as much as I do. You see, it took a change of perspective for me to appreciate what God was doing in my life.
That's the thing about threads. So often, from the thread's perspective, they don't understand why they're being twisted and pulled and stretched. But then, once you take a step back and look at the whole picture, you realize that it was necessary to make something beautiful. Are you being stretched and don't why? Ask God to show you the tapestry He's making. I promise you, it's something more beautiful than you could ever imagine.
2 Corinthians 3:12-18
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. 13
We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent
the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. 14
But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains
when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in
Christ is it taken away. 15 Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. 16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with
ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 
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