Who's Holding Your Paintbrush?

Who's Holding Your Paintbrush?

By Chantal Huinink

A friend and I were recently discussing the challenges associated with surrendering full control of our lives over to God. She encouraged me to continually surrender not only my faith life and church involvement, but my work, social interactions, and future aspirations, etc., through the following analogy. Each of our lives is like a giant paint canvas and the question is who is holding your paintbrush? 

When we try to control our lives, it is as though we are gripping our paintbrush. Conversely, when we surrender control to God, it is as though we are giving Him our paintbrush.  God is the most talented artist of all! He's the only one that can make everything He touches beautiful. Therefore, it is in our best interest to allow Him to have control over our lives and the choices we make. 

When we give the Lord control over small areas of our lives, those areas will become beautiful. When we only allow God to work in particular areas, it is like limiting the space that God has to work with on our canvas. He will make the spaces we surrender to him completely beautiful. The more areas that we surrender the more broad and beautiful his strokes will become on our life canvas and the more evident his work will be. 

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” – 2 Cor 5:17 (NIV)

 It is often a struggle to give God control over all areas of our lives but this step of faith will undoubtedly be socially, emotionally, and spiritually fruitful.