Recently I came across a drawing exercise I had never tried before. This exercise required that you draw upside down. That’s right, upside down.
How do you do that? First, you turn the reference for what you are drawing upside down. Then you try to copy the shapes just as you see them.
I decided to give this exercise a try. I turned my reference picture over and started drawing. I concentrated on one small section at a time, covering the rest of the picture up so that I wouldn’t be distracted. I wondered how this was ever going to turn out right! But to my great surprise and pleasure when I was finished and turned the drawing over it resembled fairly closely the cat that I was trying to draw.
The reason for this exercise was to teach me to draw better by seeing better. I turned the picture upside down so that it wouldn’t look like a cat. That way instead of trying to draw a cat, I would be drawing what I saw. Instead of a cat I was drawing a collection of shapes; an assortment of lines and squiggles that when arranged correctly resembled a cat!
Life is like that. Sometimes it seems that my life isn’t going anywhere. It looks as though I am getting nowhere and I wonder how things will ever turn out right. But that’s just the way I see it. There is nothing wrong with my life, only the way that I am looking at it. I can’t see the whole the picture.
But God is sovereign. Not only can He see the whole picture, He is also the one drawing it! He is directing every line, every shape. He is making my life into the masterpiece that He has planned it to be! He is using me to declare His glory and power. Even when I can’t see it.
So if the world is looking a little topsy turvey. Remember, that is just the way we see things. God is still in control and He knows what He is doing. All that we can do is concentrate on the little lines and shapes in front of us. Then trust Him with the rest.
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