The Fabric of our lives

Today Jesus gave me a vision of a quilt. In each square was an event in our lives. Good and bad events. The fabric was woven with various threads. The very fabric of our quilts are woven with trials and trouble interlaced in the joyful times. Sometimes our quilts can fray and literally fall apart from thin and broken thread that has been used to hold the squares of our lives together. Thread that we've chosen in our lives from the "discount" basket  But you have to remember who designed our fabric in the first place. Our Creator, the Master Quiltmaker. Once you choose the thread from His basket to weave and sew together your squares, your quilt, although interwoven with trials and tribulations amidst the joy, your quilt will never fray or fall apart. God tells us a three stranded cord can never be broken. WAITING, TRUSTING and HOPING are intricately connected, like golden strands, to form a strong thread. TRUST is the central strand because it is the response God desires most from us. Waiting and Hoping strengthen the central strand, as we WAIT on the Lord it strengthens our trust. HOPE is future-directed, connecting us to our inheritance in heaven.   Make the cord, the thread you choose to sew your squares together, the one braided together with TRUST, HOPE and WAITING so that your life is a quilt that will never fray or fall apart. And a quilt that will remain here on Earth as a family "heirloom" after you leave, protecting and covering your family for generations to come.

p.s. The thread analogy was partially borrowed from Jesus Calling by Sarah Young March 12th devotion.