Painted Picture

Is the truth such a scary thing that we despise the day it is spoken among the masses? Does a picture paint a thousand words? On the surface the picture you see may be symbolic of maybe a scenic view or of the busy city on a Monday afternoon. Naked to the human eye is the robust melody of cars moving swiftly past as the people move courageously through the streets as if they are hands gracefully playing the piano each finger representing a person. Unaware of the foul stench that lurks from the sewers beneath as each food stand is passed the aroma of food floats into each persons nostrils as if sucked in a vacuum. The mere taste of every aroma is as different as ice cream on a Sunday afternoon to warm coco on a winter snow day. The feel of the hard concrete pounds the bottom of each passers foot. The shocks on every vehicle are worn from the constant bouncing as they fall in and out of each grave hole.

Now that I have implanted this vision in your head, ask yourself again does a picture paint a thousand words? The picture leaves to the imagination so many things for the individual to decide that there is really no definitive answer. Yet when faced with life we must answer that exact question. Is everything really what it seems to be from our eyesight? Once you have received solid facts then is when we must react so no false action is given. To react prior to gathering the facts is only leaving an open door to what might have been closed had more time been taken and words not rushed. “Patients is a virtue,” they say; I say it’s a must to operate in life. I say without patients you get what they call in the programming world as syntax errors or to us errors.

The truth can be learned, sometimes not as quickly as we would like but eventually it will come to surface and justice will prevail. Jesus himself was persecuted for speaking the truth and yet beaten, ridiculed, made a mock and then nailed to the cross as he faced his fleshly death. Jesus still rose from the dead and ascended into the heaves. You to can still rise! When you are under the pressures of life’s obstacles and you have tried your best to bring forth the truth and yet you are beaten, ridiculed, made a mock and nailed to your cross remember what Jesus has done! Remember that he died for our sins so we may live! Remember that you must die to the flesh and follow the spirit! The good book tells us, “he will not lie more on you then you can bare…” keep your focus as you go forth!

- May God Have His Way With Me Daily -