Through a Mirror Dimly

 GodTracker 1030

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“The Lord does have your life’s track clearly laid down before you, but until you trace every step by faith, you will not discover the beauty of the image of the masterpiece called you.”

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Colossians 1:23(a)
…if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast…

A while back, I was driving home one afternoon, pondering life (as one does). I was thinking about my family, my work, my past and the prospects of my future when suddenly it dawned on me that it seemed as though I was tracing the outline of a picture of my life through old-fashioned tracing paper. You know the type. It’s sort of greyish in colour and slightly transparent. I used tracing paper when I was a child for school projects. I’d find a good picture for my project and place the tracing paper over the picture, then, armed with an FF pencil, I’d trace the dim outline of the picture that I could see through the tracing paper. Then I’d transfer the image to my project. Nowadays, of course, kids simply copy and paste and print from the World Wide Web.

The more I thought about this analogy, the more it dawned on me that if I could see my whole life laid out neatly before me with all the details in place then what part would faith play in the great scheme of God’s masterpiece of who I am? And without faith we cannot please God. Faith is required to seek and track God’s plans, like using a pencil to trace the outline of an image through tracing paper. Faith looks forward to God’s reward; faith anticipates God’s provision, and faith is the substance of things hoped for. The Apostle Paul once said, “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.” Indeed, we live by faith and not by sight!

Does it ever seem to you as though you’re looking at your life through tracing paper, as though all you can see is a basic, dim outline of the image before you? You do believe that God has painted a masterpiece of who you are, but from where you’re standing, all you can see are greyed-out and obscured outlines. Ultimately, the Lord does have your life’s track clearly laid down before you, but until you trace every step by faith, you will not discover the beauty of the image of the masterpiece called you.

God-tracking is tracing the obscured picture of your life by faith.

READ ALL ABOUT IT
Get into the word of God and get the word of God into you.
1 Corinthians 13:11-13
Hebrews 11:1, 6
2 Corinthians 5:17

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Don’t Give Up, Look Up & Pray

“I make a conscious decision now to take one day at a time and believe that you will help me trace my life’s track by faith and not by sight.”

“O Lord, sometimes I get so frustrated with life because I cannot see the wood for the trees. It seems that all I can see before me are greyed-out borders and obscured details. But now I realise that I have been using my own reason in planning my life instead of simply committing my ways to you and then walking in faith. Dear Lord, I make a conscious decision now to take one day at a time and believe that you will help me trace my life’s track by faith and not by sight. For your glory. Amen.”

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What is GodTracker?
GodTracker is a weekly e-mail Christian motivational thought, written by Dudley Anderson, based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His Word calls us to seek his plan by acknowledging him in all our ways and by tracking his purposes, in faith. Most of what you’ll read is based upon the author’s personal experience of tracking the plans of God.

Listen to GodTracker podcasts by Dudley Anderson at, https://www.surereality.net/podcasts/

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

 

The Big Picture

 

GodTracker 951
The e-devotional to help keep you on track with God’s plans for your life.
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“God knows whatever it is you’re facing today. He knows how you got into that situation and he knows how you will get out of it.”

2 Corinthians 4:8
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

 The six teenagers were lying flat on their backs on the grass gazing up at the Milky Way against a night black canvas. Myriad stars blinked and glistened, light years above them. “Spectacular, isn’t it?” I said. The mesmerised stargazers made no comment. “Do you know that we are on the edge of our galaxy looking back into it, at about 200 billion stars spanning a distance of about 100,000 light-years? This means that little star’s twinkle over there,” I said pointing to a speck of cosmic glitter far away, “may be a hundred thousand years in the past. You’re gazing across space and time, beyond your wildest imagination.”

From where these teenagers were lying on the earth’s grass, they could see vast swathes of the Milky Way galaxy. It was as if they were looking at the whole picture. God views our lives like that. He can see our beginning and our end in one picture. The Lord sees you for who you are and where you are in space and time. To Apostle John on the Isle of Patmos, Jesus said “I am the Alpha and the Omega, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” Notice the conjunction word “and”. God is simultaneously past, present and future. In other words, he is not confined by the bounds of time. On the contrary, time is confined by God.

As those teenagers gazed across time looking at those stars, so God sees your whole life in one picture. God knows whatever it is you’re facing today. He knows how you got into that situation and he knows how you will get out of it. In fact, he’s there already on the other side of that wall meeting your every need.

God saw you in the womb and he can see you in the tomb. Step back and let him guide you by his Word and his Spirit. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” If you continue to acknowledge God in all your ways you can trust his course for your life. God sees the big picture.

God-tracking is seeing your life through his eyes.

IT’S ALL IN THE BIBLE. READ ALL ABOUT IT. (NKJV)
Get into the word of God and get the word of God into you!
Psalm 139:1-3
Revelation 1:8

Hebrews 12:2

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SO, DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“Help me to rest in your knowledge of my life’s track and help me to follow your purposes every day, by faith.”

“O my God I know now that you see my beginning from my end. Help me through this difficult time. You know all there is to know about me and I believe that my times are in your hands. I commit my ways to you and acknowledge you in all I am and all I do. Help me to rest in your knowledge of my life’s track and help me to follow your purposes every day, by faith. Take care of my loved ones and their futures and take care of my future, O Lord. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.”

If you prayed that prayer today email me now at  dudley@godtracker.co.uk

HELP keep GodTracker free

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What is GodTracker?
GodTracker is a weekly e-mail Christian motivational thought, written by Dudley Anderson, based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His Word calls us to seek his plan by acknowledging him in all our ways and by tracking his purposes, in faith. Most of what you’ll read is based upon the author’s personal experience of tracking the plans of God.

Listen to GodTracker podcasts by Dudley Anderson at, https://www.surereality.net/podcasts/

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.