GOD WEAVES OUR LIVES INTO A TAPESTRY OF LOVE
EPHESIANS 2:10 NLT
For WE are GOD’S MASTERPIECE.
He has CREATED us ANEW in CHRIST JESUS, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Our LIVES are a TAPESTRY of LOVE woven by the HAND of GOD.
HE is the MASTER WEAVER creating a BEAUTIFUL MASTERPIECE.
He WEAVES all our experiences together into a work of art…a tapestry of our lives.
The threads are carefully chosen and perfectly placed.
Colors range from the vivid to the subtle…the bright to the dark…the sparkling to the subdued.
All are expertly sewn together for magnificence.
But what do we usually see?
We usually see only the UNDERSIDE of God’s tapestry…
the jumbled threads,
the knots,
the missed stitches,
the mistakes.
To us it may appear far from beautiful.
In our impatience, we may try to pull at the threads to make the tapestry prettier.
Perhaps we try to add new threads of our own to the pattern, hoping to improve its appearance.
We try to make new threads on our own and think that we can make it better.
Or we may try to weave our own novice stitches into the tapestry, creating our own designs.
Yet our attempts do not have the artistic touch of the Master Weaver.
He lovingly corrects our misguided efforts, weaving all into His intricate masterpiece.
EXODUS 26:1 NLT
“Make the Tabernacle from ten curtains of FINELY WOVEN LINEN.
Decorate the curtains with BLUE, PURPLE, and SCARLET THREAD and with SKILLFULLY EMBROIDERED cherubim.
EXODUS 26:1 ICB
“Make the Holy Tent with ten pieces of cloth.
These pieces must be made of fine linen and blue, purple and red thread.
Have a skilled craftsman sew designs of creatures with wings on the pieces of cloth.
We SEE God as the Master Weaver in the lives of the Israelites.
He wants His people to remember Him in their forty years of wilderness wanderings.
On Mount Sinai, Yahweh gives Moses His HEAVENLY BLUEPRINT .… DETAILED PLANS for the Tabernacle.
ARTISANS are CHOSEN to weave the beautiful CURTAINS that are to line the Tabernacle’s interior space.
These curtains are decorated with cherubim SKILLFULLY WOVEN into the DIVINE DESIGN.
Cherubim, angelic beings, symbolize the HOLINESS of GOD.
GOD’S CHOICE of COLORS for His dwelling place all POINT to the coming MESSIAH.
Each one foreshadows the GLORY of CHRIST.
FINELY spun LINEN is expertly embroidered with threads of BLUE, SCARLET and PURPLE.
The fine WHITE linen symbolizes the PURITY, HOLINESS and RIGHTEOUSNESS of our SAVIOR.
MATTHEW 5:8 NKJV
Blessed are the PURE in HEART,
For they shall SEE God.
MATTHEW 5:8 TPT
“What bliss you experience when your HEART is PURE!
For then your EYES will OPEN to SEE more and more of God.
Jesus spoke this during His famous Sermon the Mount.
To be PURE in HEART means:
• To have an inner moral righteousness.
• To be single in purpose, to have the single goal of accomplishing God’s will for God’s glory.
• To be free from anything that defiles or corrupts our thoughts and motives.
• To have spiritual, moral, and ethical integrity.
Ethic is important
The Greek word for “pure” in Matthew 5:8 is katharos.
It means to be “clean, blameless, unstained from guilt.”
The word can refer specifically to that which is purified by fire or by pruning.
John the Baptist told people that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire (Matthew 3:11).
Malachi speaks of the Messiah as being like a “refiner’s fire” (Malachi 3:2).
Jesus refers to believers as being the branches and to Himself as being the vine (John 15:1-17).
For a vine to produce fruit, it must be pruned.
Those who are truly “pure,” then, are those who have been declared innocent because of the work of Jesus and who are being sanctified by His refining fire and His pruning.
Pruning - God prune us and correct us
The Greek word for “heart” in Matthew 5:8 is kardeeah.
This can be applied to the physical heart.
But it also refers to the spiritual center of life.
It is where thoughts, desires, sense of purpose, will, understanding, and character reside.
So, to be pure in heart means to be blameless in who we actually are.
Being pure in heart involves having a singleness of heart
toward God.
A pure heart has no hypocrisy, no guile, no hidden motives.
The pure heart is marked by transparency and an uncompromising desire to please God in all things.
It is more than an external purity of behavior; it is an internal purity of soul.
Single heart only for God
God is not lack in money. He will give when He knows your heart
Lord i thank you that You have made me righteous
The BLUE thread, the color of the sky, symbolizes HEAVEN.
After you are born again, you are a spirit being from heaven.
Our lives decided by physical realm, but you are spiritual.
You are born from above.
Make sure blue is sewn into your cloth
The Son of God is HEAVENLY in His ORIGIN and NATURE.
JOHN 3:31 TPT
“For the one who is from the earth belongs to the EARTH and SPEAKS from the NATURAL REALM.
But the One who comes FROM ABOVE is ABOVE EVERYTHING and SPEAKS of the HIGHEST REALM of ALL!
The SCARLET thread symbolizes MANKIND
[The Hebrew word for "man" אדם (ʾaḏam) means "to be red", referring to the ruddy colour of human skin, or from Akkadian adamu meaning "to make".]
and the BLOOD of SACRIFICE.
The Son of Man left heaven to come to earth.
The Lamb of God laid down His life as a ransom for all (1 Timothy 2:6).
His perfect sacrifice atones for the sins of mankind… past, present and future.
Forgiving others is we know we are forgiven.
Do you realised God has forgiven you?
Ask Holy Spirit help us to see Realised the blood of Jesus has forgiven our sins
The PURPLE thread symbolizes ROYALTY, the color of KINGS.
CHRIST is King of kings and Lord of lords over all of heaven and earth.
As Isaiah prophesied…“the Lord is our King; it is He who will save us” (Isaiah 33:22).
The color purple is created by mixing blue and scarlet together…
• symbolizing JESUS as altogether FULLY GOD and FULLY MAN.
EXODUS 39:3 ICB
They hammered the gold into sheets.
Then they cut the gold into long, thin strips.
They worked the gold into the blue, purple and red thread, and fine linen.
This was done by a skilled craftsman.
EXODUS 39:3 ESV
And they hammered out gold leaf, and he cut it into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet yarns, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design.
REAL GOLD THREAD is made from tiny pieces of gold that are glued together.
The process starts by crushing small pieces of gold into very small particles.
These particles are then mixed with a glue and heated until the glue becomes liquid.
JOB 23:10 EASY
But he knows the way that I live.
When he has finished testing me, he will see that I am pure.
I will be as pure as gold.
THREADS of GOLD are woven into the Israelites’ PRIESTLY GARMENTS.
The GOLDEN threads symbolize the DIVINITY of CHRIST.
JESUS our Savior is the GOLDEN THREAD that WEAVES ALL Scripture together.
HE is the LOVE that GOD WEAVES into the TAPESTRY of our LIVES.
These colored threads symbolize our JOURNEY of SALVATION.
BEFORE we were saved, we were SCARLET or EARTHLY.
When we are UNITED with the BLUE of our Heavenly Savior, we become PURPLE … priestly, royal children of God.
1 PETER 2:9 TPT
But you are GOD’S CHOSEN TREASURE —
• priests who are kings, a SPIRITUAL “nation” SET APART as God’s devoted ones.
He called you OUT of darkness to experience his marvelous light,
• and now he claims you as HIS very OWN.
He did this so that you would BROADCAST his GLORIOUS WONDERS throughout the WORLD.
We are CLOTHED with the PURE WHITE HOLINESS and RIGHTEOUSNESS
• of CHRIST who is the GOLDEN THREAD that WEAVES our LIVES TOGETHER.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11
EPHESIANS 4:23-24 NKJV
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you PUT ON the NEW MAN which was CREATED according to God, in TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS and HOLINESS.
EPHESIANS 4:24 EASY
Take up the NEW NATURE that God has prepared for you.
That nature is like God's own nature.
Then you will live in a truly good way that pleases God.
Cornelia “Corrie” ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II.
She was imprisoned for her actions.
Corrie ten Boom, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust and faithful follower of Christ, shares of the tapestry of God.
“Reflections of God’s Glory” Corrie ten Boom -
Notice that it says that the DARK threads are as needful as the threads of GOLD and SILVER.
The Master Weaver needs them both to create a masterpiece.
Speaking before a group of children,
she shows them
• the BACKSIDE of a tapestry with its hundreds of strings tied in KNOTS.
It appears JUMBLED, TANGLED, RANDOM.…with NO PATTERN, NO DESIGN.
She explains that from our limited, earthly perspective we question what God is doing in our lives.
At that point Corrie slowly turned the purple tangled mess around to REVEAL a beautiful tapestry: a crown of gold with multicolored jewels.
“This is what GOD sees… from HIS PERSPECTIVE… a MASTERPIECE!”
– Corrie ten Boom
The colored threads of God’s tapestry are expertly woven into our lives by the Master Weaver.
Just as He chose the perfect colors to adorn His Holy Tabernacle in the wilderness, so He chooses from His infinite palette the perfect colors to depict our life experiences.
Colors of beauty mark our joys….colors of sadness mark our sorrows….colors of brilliance mark our triumphs.
We may at times question whether God has a divine design or purpose in mind for us.
Our life’s tapestry appears jumbled… full of knots, mistakes and loose ends.
Yet we do not SEE from HIS HEAVENLY VIEWPOINT.
We can only TRUST HIS PERFECT wisdom, artistry and expertise.
GOD'S VIEW
One day, we will SEE God’s tapestry that HE has so LOVINGLY woven for us.
It will be a BEAUTIFUL MASTERPIECE.
ROMANS 8:28 TPT
So we are convinced that
• EVERY DETAIL of our LIVES is
• continually WOVEN together for GOOD,
• for we are HIS LOVERS who have been CALLED to
• fulfill HIS Designed Purpose.
ROMANS 8:29 TPT
For he knew all about us before we were born and he destined us from the beginning to SHARE the LIKENESS of HIS SON.
This means the Son is the oldest among a vast FAMILY of brothers and sisters who will BECOME just LIKE HIM.
ROMANS 8:30 TPT
Having determined our destiny ahead of time,
• he CALLED US to HIMSELF
• and TRANSFERRED his PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS
• to EVERYONE he called.
And THOSE who possess his perfect righteousness he
CO-GLORIFIED with His SON!
EPHESIANS 5:25-26 CEB
As for husbands, love your wives just like CHRIST LOVED the CHURCH (BRIDE) and GAVE HIMSELF for her.
He did this to make her HOLY by WASHING her in a BATH of WATER with the WORD.
EPHESIANS 5:27 TPT
ALL that he does in us is DESIGNED
• to make us a MATURE CHURCH
• for HIS PLEASURE,
• UNTIL we BECOME a source of PRAISE to HIM —
> GLORIOUS and RADIANT,
> BEAUTIFUL and HOLY,
> WITHOUT FAULT or FLAW.
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