The Word says that God works within us; that when we yield to the Spirit of God He moves in our lives and through our lives. Philippians 2:13 says, “For it is God who is at work in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” Many Christians today are not giving God anything to do in their lives. How do I know this is true? Because of the low Word level within their hearts.
The Bible says that God is at work in us according to Phil. 2:13, but what is the vehicle through which God works? It is His Word. God says in Jeremiah 1:12, “I am watching over My Word to perform it.” The work in which God does in our hearts is through the Word that we have put there for Him to do. Therefore, let your life’s goal be to exhaust God; to put so much Word in your heart God has to work 24/7 just to accomplish all that is there.
The Bible also says in Phil. 2:10 that we are His workmanship, or in other translations, His masterpiece. Our lives are like a blank canvas. God sits in front of His easel and waits, the canvas of our lives hung there before Him. The paint in which he uses is the Word which we have put in our hearts. Many Christians remain empty canvases. They haven’t spent time reading His Word, putting it in their hearts, and creating for Him a selection of paints in which to use.
The more Word you put in your heart, the more work you give God to do. The more Word you put in your heart, the more paints you give Him to use. When God reveals the masterpiece of your life, and shows you the canvas you gave Him to work on, how much color will you see? Will your canvas be empty? Will there be only a few wisps of color placed here and there? Or will your canvas reveal a beautiful, intricately detailed painting with multiple levels of colors building upon each other creating a scene so beautiful no museum in all the earth could contain its beauty?
Remember when you were in elementary school, and the beginning of the year supply list requested a box of crayons? You shopped with your mom or dad for school supplies, and you came to the Crayola section, and discovered there were boxes of 8 crayons, boxes with 24 crayons, and then those huge boxes with 72 crayons. If you were like me, the 24-crayon box is usually what accompanied you on the first day of school. Most of the other 1st graders were like me, but then there were a few of the kids in class that had those golden boxes of 72. I used to look over at all the colors they had to choose from, not just one or two rows like mine, but rows and rows of colors, and thought, “Wow! Wouldn’t it be awesome to have that many colors to choose from?!” What size box of colors have you given God to work with on the canvas of your heart? Have you given God 24 colors to work with? Or have you stuffed your heart so full of the Word that He is that kid in your 1st-grade class with the box of 72 magnificent colors to work with?
God is extravagant with us. He sent His only Son. Shouldn’t we too be extravagant with Him? Give Him so many colors to choose from, so much Word in our hearts, He must sit and ponder where to even begin.
Don’t let your life be found as an empty canvas. Every day, read the Word, read the Word, read the Word. Give God so much work to do on the canvas of your heart that like Aaron holding up the exhausted arms of Moses, God has to call in the angels to hold up His arms just to continue to paint through the point of exhaustion to complete your canvas.
Below is a picture from years ago, from my 4-year-old daughter at the time. Unknowingly to me, she colored this picture as I was writing this nugget. May your canvas one day be found just as full!
