Yesterday I painted a small mural at my church. I wasn't totally sure what I was going to do until I got there. Kim, the head of our beautification committee said she thought it would be cool to turn the crawl space door I'd be painting into a window. So I painted some clouds with a window pane in front. When I finished I still wasn't sure what verse to put on, but I finally narrowed it down to a couple then went with Matthew 6:26- "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" I wrote that in one pane and added some birds in another. I prayed to God that He would really use it to speak to someone. Not just make someone say, "oh I've always liked that verse; cute," but have God literally use it to speak directly to someone He was trying to convey the message of "don't worry" to. I knew today it could have the most impact because no one knew I was painting it. I said, "God what if you even make the sermon on that verse tomorrow or something like that?"
THE SERMON TODAY WAS ON THAT VERSE.
GOD IS SO STINKIN' COOL! Back in September Kim asked me to paint a large mural on a wall in one of the children Sunday school rooms. She didn't know why but she wanted to do the verse in John 21:17 where Jesus tells Peter, "feed my sheep." So I painted a shepherd looking over a flock of sheep and wrote the verse large in the sky. Elsie has been the Sunday school teacher of that room for years. When she heard what verse we were using, she started crying. I guess it was sort of a "life verse". She saw all the children she's taught over the years as God's sheep, and He had called her to feed them. I love it!
May your deeds be shown to your servants,
your splendor to their children.
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us;
establish the work of our hands for us-
yes, establish the work of our hands.
-Psalm 90:16-17
