His Tapestry

Imagine, if you will, each of us were a piece of yarn. Each one is different: bright and dark colors, browns and golds, blues and greens, blacks and grays, reds and oranges. There are various textures too. Thin, smooth strands, others coarse and knotted, some thready and wiry. Some are judged by us to be stretched beyond their usefulness. But God has of them all in a basket, ready to be used in what I’d like to call His tapestry.
His tapestry is endless. The yarn He uses is woven up and over, under and through, completely intermingling each strand with the others. Sometimes a piece is so knotted that He has to work it out with his gracious hand so that it too may be used in His grand masterpiece. There may also be another piece that so stretched that it needs time to rest. This one God may put tenderly to the side, but He will eventually pick it up again as the tapestry progresses. There may be other pieces that are snarled and cause other threads to become knotted with it. Without blinking, God takes those pieces, and carefully detangles them. He smoothes out the rough parts and merges them into His work.
There are never any holes or missed stitches, because it is done by Him. Each of the pieces of yarn, even the thinnest, tiniest piece is part of His tapestry held together by other pieces. It’s part of what He is using to build His Grand Masterpiece. He has put His love and faith into each piece to hold fast and never let go of what has been stitched before.
In our walk with God, we, like those pieces of thread, will meet and have woven into our lives, other believers that may affect us in powerful ways. Each of us has a purpose that we may not seek right away, but have to trust and have faith that God will deliver us in the way He wants us to be. There will be some that will cause us to stumble and if we are not careful, become unraveled. And as in creating His tapestry, He will correct what needs to be corrected. He will work through the situation like the Master Weaver works each thread up and over, under and through, as we continue to move forward and build His kingdom. There are others that will be there through thick and thin, supporting us as we continue our walk. Wherever we are in our walk, loving and supporting one another will help us move further and keep on track as we keep walking in faith and the same love that He has for us. Eventually we all have to keep moving in our own path God has planned for each of us until we finally are at the end of that road and we are standing before Him as part of His kingdom in Heaven. Then the fullness and beauty of His tapestry will be revealed.
Written By Me
Edited by Kathy (His Pure Garden)