Do You Paint?

Possibly you are an artist. You paint with watercolors, maybe oils. You use brushes, even a sponge will work. You have creative thoughts to put on the canvass or paper. Your creative work takes time. You are meticulous. Your work must be just right. You may still paint and not be an artist. You paint a room in your house, or the exterior. Your tools are brushes, a sprayer will work. Your paints may be latex or oil based. A domestic painting job takes time and work.

Why do we paint?

We paint to share an idea. We paint to reveal beauty. We paint to preserve something either our home, an idea or a moment in life.

 We live in snow country. Last night it snowed. The entire neighborhood is covered with snow. Snow cover extends far beyond the neighborhood. New snow covers parts of the entire upper Midwest. Call it a blanket, a fresh coating, or more winter, 2 ½ inches of new crystalline precipitation is beautiful. It is extraordinarily white. It puts a fresh crisp in the outside air. The new snow produced a response in my mind.

God paints.

Not only with snow, He paints with light at sunrise and sunset. Some days, He paints a sky full of white puffy clouds, other days, they are towering, dark and threatening. He paints with the wind. Waves on the ocean, sand of the desert, sculptures of snow. He paints with flowers, and leaves. God paints…exquisitely, all around the earth, in breathtaking ways.

 Last evening, He used snow. He did not use a brush or a sprayer. He spoke, and it snowed. The creative power of God now covers the entire upper Midwest. No, God did not paint on a canvass or a wall in a room. He covered all of creation with snow. He covered the ground, all the plants, all of the human structures…everything outside was covered. It took some time. But it was not work for God.

This is the best part.

Why does God paint?

My first thought today was negative. New snow, more shoveling, more work. But the second thought was, “this is beautiful, time to appreciate this beauty made by God.” Then the impression of God as a Painter came. Why does God paint?

God’s canvass is the earth.

He made it. He can paint it how He chooses. God paints to:

1.       Create

2.       Show beauty…God knows beauty touches the human soul. He made our soul.

3.       Reveal His power…no human can paint as God does. No human can work in the ways God uses.

4.       Preserve…we have exceptionally short memories. God knows we need regular reminders of His presence and power. God paints to preserve our memory that He is indeed God.

5.       Reveal His Love…when God paints, we are reminded of a second thing: He loves you and me.

Do you enjoy a good painting?

God paints every day.

All are Masterpieces.