Where's My Faith?

If you've never heard about Corrie Ten Boom you need to read "The Hiding Place." She is the inspiration for my new blog. Corrie wrote about the beautiful weaving that God is creating within each of our lives. We can't see what He sees. He sees the whole creation from the topside. We just see the bottom, with all the beautiful threads, some dark, some light, some shimmery, some bright. But all we see the are the knots and loose threads that don't give us the whole picture that God sees. He's working on our lives and we won't get to see the whole thing until we reach heaven one day. That's where faith comes into play.

Faith is a never-ending process for everyone. No matter who you are, you have faith. I choose to place my faith in the Creator God and His Son Jesus. Not only do I believe in God, I believe that Jesus is God and that He came down in the limited body of man to walk this earth to be among His creation.

Jesus came down to live under the knots and threads of His creation. Even though He didn't have to. In fact, He placed the scarlet thread in my life and those who choose to place their faith in Him. He bled on a cross, crucified for all sin, weaving the black threads of the world into His beautiful masterpiece. He laid in a tomb for three days, as God wove a grey thread to bring depth to His weaving. He rose again, threading the fiber of gold throughout the majesty of His art. Now He lives above right by the Father seeing the topside of my life and the lives of His creation. He also dwells within those who love Him giving a glimpse of His eternity.

However, there are moments when I override that faith and place my attention on myself. I focus on the knots and bland threads ignoring the bright and beautiful ones that intertwine. I begin to believe that I'm in control and soon my life spins out of control. Am I just talking to myself here or are there others out there who are on the same page? What a dumb question. Of course there are. What am I thinking?

The definition of faith is confidence or trust in the ability of a person or thing. Do you see that we use faith in every aspect of our lives? When we get up, when we lie down and everything in-between. We have choices when it comes to faith. It's where we choose to place our faith that means anything.

I am fallible. So why do I choose to trust in myself? Why do I choose to trust in situations or people who may let me down? So I now choose to place my faith in Someone who knows me best and loves me most. And when my attention drifts to myself or other people or things or sunny beaches, Jesus gently reminds me to look at Him.

Like Corrie Ten Boom, I see my life from underneath the threads and remember that this life I'm living isn't finished yet. I so excited that one day I will see the completed picture. But, until that time I choose to place my faith in my Creator who sees the whole picture. He still threading His needle with a palate of colors beyond imagination. I can't wait to see how it will turn out one day ~ on the other side. I live knowing that Jesus resides within me reminding me that eternity began when I decided to love Him and believe that He, the great Weaver, loves me too.