Painting God's beauty in our minds!

Our world is a dark place in many ways. Many of us are so blessed that sometimes we don't see the blessings or we take them for granted. A lot of times I don't see the darkness others are going through. I feel blinded to others pain or it's because it's hidden that we don't see it.

As I live life daily I know something else is going on around us, darkness that I know is there. Things like child abuse, children starving, people who are sick and dying, and things people are doing wrong we don't even want to think about.

I read in a book one time about a prostitute who was renting out her 2 year old daughter to other men so she could support her drug habit. I was appalled at such a sickening thing to do to a child. I thought about what I would do to the men who were having sexual relations with this two year old girl. My heart melted when I thought of such evil. My first and only thought would be to beat these men until till their last breath. In God's eyes I would be just as bad as they are.

I believe I sometimes keep myself away from thinking about the pain others are going through. I wash the canvas in my mind and paint it with the beauty of God. I think life should always be perfect. My life has had its share of ups and downs but I always try to find the best things in life to think about and ignore the sadness of others. I am a person who shuns away from sadness and try to find goodness to hinder the bad things in life. That is not what God is wanting me to paint in my mind.

Helping the weak is a victorious painting in God's mind. Devouring evil before it happens to others by teaching others about Jesus is another victory painting. Finding out about what others are going through and standing by their side until the storms in life passes is another masterpiece of God.

While life is grand for us it might be awful for others. Tonight I want to ask God to make me a servant to help others out. To get them through life's problems and help them start to paint their own version of the beauty of God in their own mind. What will heaven be like when we all get there? Will our mental paintings of His beauty be hanging for all to see? Will he call them his masterpieces? I hope so.