Smooth Operator....AKA Jesus!!

I am not a very good writer but the novelist of all novelists keeps giving me stories to tell.  This story is particularly about the fingerprints of God.   Not only is he an author of the most popular book of all time and currently, short stories by  yours truly, but He is also a weaver.   Yes, a weaver who takes little pieces of thread; different colors, textures, and shapes and weaves them together to make them beautiful.  Now, I am a masterpiece.  No laughing please.  I am a masterpiece because Ephesians 3:10 says, "For we are God's masterpiece."  See?  Phillipians 1:6 also says that "...He who began a good work in you will carry it on unto completion until the day of Jesus Christ."  With Jesus covering me, I am perfect.  Because of the sacrifice of our Savior, we can stand boldly and without shame before our God in heaven. ONLY because of Jesus standing in between. But until we are in heaven, I believe, that He is forever perfecting us and calling us even higher in our walk with Him.   For me, someone with little faith, I need to feel God and to experience His faithfulness.  For some reason, God chooses over and over again to listen to my frustration and reveal Himself to me.  This is how I grow and how I get closer to our Lord. Which brings me to the point of this story.  I promise I have a point!!

I have 6 weeks off this summer.  I had plans.  Plans were ruined.  I tried to make other plans.  Every door keeps shutting.  I asked God if he wouldn't mind shooting me an email with detailed instructions of what I am supposed to do.  But did I get one?  Of course not, and honestly, if I did, I wouldn't be serving a most High Being worthy of me bowing down and saying,  "My Lord and my God."   Doubting Thomas uttered these words after Jesus made him wait to reveal himself.  He wasn't on Thomas's timetable and he's not on mine either.  What kind of God would he be if he catered to little 'ole me and my demands?  Instead, He shows me his fingerprints and his masterful weaving abilities.  

In a night of prayer over these matters and others, I prayed and prayed for a dream.  Weird I know but I have done it before and the Lord has really shown up.   It is one way He HAS to speak to me; His unbelieving at times, servant.   I dreamt over and over the word SMOOTH.  In fact, in my dream, I saw someone shaving their face and remarking to me how SMOOTH it was.  Smooth, I prayed?!?  I woke up feeling as though it was so real and that the Lord really wanted to impart the word SMOOTH to me that day.  I went and had a smoothie for breakfast.  I shaved my legs and they were oh so smooth. But no revelation about the future until today. Talking with a good friend about my dilemmas for the summer, he offered up some wisdom and some of God's word for me to study.  The first verses I skimmed over were very encouraging and then I came to.....

"You are a God who does what is right, and You SMOOTH out the path ahead of them."  

He weaved my dream with a revelation from His word.  He knows how much I love it when things connect.  I wouldn't have read this verse so closely and wouldn't have paid much attention to it without the emphasis from my dream.  It forced me to tears and forced me to my knees where I proceeded to cry, "My Lord and my God." 

I was worried and frustrated that I don't always have all the answers  but happy that I serve such an awesome God.   He will show me when the time is right.  In the meantime, I will admire the work in progress, namely the beautiful woven work He is completing before my very eyes.