Yarns from God

I looked back through my journal this morning and noticed my current frustrations with my daily walk with Him go back as far as April. I feel like God has given me so many bits of wisdom, words of encouragement, prophetic words, visions, dreams and ideas but none of it comes together into one piece. I’m struggling with what He’s called me to do next with what I have. I don’t know how it all fits together. My solution has been to do nothing so that’s what I have done - nothing. Clearly, that is not a solution.

I began praying about it for the last few days. An image keeps coming to mind - a basket full of balls of yarn, all with loose ends. They are random pieces but seem very much like a part of something bigger. That’s how I feel - like I have lots of random bits and pieces of direction from God to do something with but there my yarn balls sit in the basket with their shiny knitting needles looking pretty.

In the basket, there’s different color yarn balls - purple, blue, pink, green. There are different sizes and shapes, different thicknesses and textures. I have plenty of variety and the tools and yet, there they sit looking pretty. This morning these words came to me and hit me really hard.

God NEVER hands us a finished project.

Whenever, God wants us to do something, He provides us with the supplies and the tools. It’s up to us to make something with them. In order for all those beautiful balls of yarn to be useful, I need to choose some of the yarn, or maybe all of it, and pull them out of the basket. I must pick up my perfect knitting needles and my power to create and begin to knit. I may not know what I am knitting at first but I must just begin. “Finishing is better than starting.” Ecc. 7:8 As I go, the yarns I have chosen will begin to come together and will become a finished masterpiece. He supplies me with the yarn and a beautiful masterpiece but in between the two, I am the one who must do the work IN BETWEEN. God has given me strong hands. What I do with my hands is up to me. I must use my hands along with what God’s given me in order for us to complete a finished piece.

Wholeness and completion will come to my Spirit when all the pieces are connected together and being used because I have done the work. Those threads of yarn are what He and I create with the skills, knowledge and what yarns God has given me.

I will hit some nasty tangles on the way but I can stop, take a breath and unravel the “messes” and keep going. I can and will create something of beauty. “Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it.” 2 Cor. 8:11

As I knit along, I begin to see how to connect all the loose ends in the basket to create something beautiful. It didn’t happen though until I picked up the balls of yarn and the knitting needles and began. Begin your project today!

God didn’t send Jesus to earth as a “finished” project. Jesus was sent to this earth to complete a process of steps. He was born to a virgin, he lived as a child and lived as man. He came to teach us, to show us our wicked ways, to proclaim God’s goodness, and to fulfill prophecy. He was sent to seek and save those who were lost. He had so many balls of yarn in His basket! He went through and used ALL of them. Once His work was done, we have His completed work of redemption and salvation. His project was completed and He announced, “it is finished.” Jesus came to finish God’s work of salvation. It sits before us today. Will you accept His completed project? Will your finish your project?

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful. I know that full well.” Psalm 139:13