The Palette not the Painting?

While doing a study in Sunday school there was an excerpt talking about artists.
And how paintings or other works of art are beautiful but we don't know what goes into them.
Made me think....we never look at the painters palette and say..."oh my isn't that beautiful!" Or the huge piece of stone and say "what a glorious statue"
A painters palette...an artist's...For example...ewww!  What a mess.  Can you see a great work of art in that?  Can you see daVinci's Mona Lisa or any of Van Gogh's in that mess of color???

I personally am a fan of Norman Rockwell...not just because I enjoy his portrayal of people and their personalities, he also captured some of my relatives!  Namely my great great grandmother Amelia Harrington.  Now looking at his palette I would never have seen her likeness, but Mr.Rockwell, being the artist he is, took those colors and on canvas recreated my Amelia for all of history and time...or at least as long as art work survives.  I have reproductions and as long as I have them and display them...there she is!

Where am I going with this??  Not critiquing art!
We, our lives are that palette....can you relate?   Do you feel like you are a mess?  Your life is a mess?  Maybe you can see no rhyme or reason to what is happening. Or why you can't seem to "straighten yourself out".   Because WE are not the Master Artist!  We need to let God have the palette ...let Him be in control and trust that the final product will be EXACTLY what He intended.  What looks like just a mess of "colors",  a confused pile of what seems to be yuck  He knows what to do with each of part of it...when and how to use it....apply it to the canvas that is your life.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.  Ephesians 2:10 (NKJ)
or the New Living Translation
 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

He sees the full, completed painting.....He knows how it is going to turn out!
For I know the plans I have for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and I will restore your fortunes[b] and gather you from all the nations and places where I banished you”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “I will restore you to the place I deported you from.
Even if we feel we are a mess, beyond repair, beyond hope....HE can restore us!
In Him we are a new creation....a new masterpiece.
 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (HCSV)

His Masterpiece ...YOU....are created for His glory! We don't have to be the artist....we just have display His work!  We have to display Christ in us...His love, mercy, compassion.  

Everyone who is called by My name,
Whom I have created for My glory;
I have formed him, yes, I have made him.” Isaiah 43:7

My prayer for you today is that you allow God to create His greatest Masterpiece....YOU....
And all He creates is beautiful and that means YOU!  Let His love be displayed through you today!

and just a reminder....all great works of art take TIME!  So do not be discouraged if you don't feel like a Masterpiece today...through the love and blood of Jesus Christ...God sees His work completed!
I pray you take heart in that!