Why do some people say that our life is like a weaving, and God is the One who weaves?
If you stand by the weaving lady today, and watch her at work, perhaps it will help you to understand. She does not notice us, but continues steadily building up her pattern on the strong hempen cords. It is hard to guess what color she will choose next from the beautiful rainbow skeins of yarn in her lap. The finished pattern is her secret, but we can admire what she has done already.
Now, my reader, that weaving is like your life. You are the cords (good cords we hope, and not rotten ones), and God is choosing each day what colors He will weave into your life. Sometimes He chooses yellow for sunny happy days, sometimes He chooses red for very important days, sometimes green for healthy growing days, and sometimes gray for lonely sick days, or hard and painful days of black.
Why does He choose so? We cannot tell you, but “we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:2828And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28). If He has sent a gray day when you wanted a golden day, perhaps the tears come and they won’t seem to stay back. Then doubt not, dear Christian, that the Lord Himself has chosen this gray day for you, and the time is sure to come when you will thank Him for choosing so. It would specially honor Him if you thank Him for that gray day even now.
But are you, after all, offering God rotten cord to work with? Are you, unsaved reader, living on day after day with an evil unbelieving heart, doubting His wisdom, and grumbling about the rain and the cold which He sends? Even if He sends you golden days, what good are they if they are woven upon rotten cords—that is, if they are spent according to the wishes of your unbelieving heart?
God wants to save you from your sins and from the power of evil within you He wants to give you a new power, which, like good hempen cord, can make all your days beautiful in His sight, and fit to be rewarded in eternity. Stop and think before you grumble about what God sends. Are you offering Him good cord or had upon which to weave the colors of your life?
Even we Christians sometimes grumble and want to change His perfect plans and then we wonder at the ruin and failure which result. We have a new nature, like good trusty cord, but we need to walk according to its desires, by the power of the Spirit of God. Then God Himself will be gloried in the beauty of what He has wrought in us. Is that not cause enough to be thankful, gray days and all?
ML 11/12/1950