Dazzling Colours
It is the morning of my 30th birthday, and I am feeling all kinds of beautiful emotions. If there are words to describe how I feel right now, then I do not have them. It is weird, really, but satisfying nonetheless. We will not always have the words or the expression, and that is okay.
I will say this though; the wisdom with which God causes all things to work together for man’s good is beyond man. One minute, it feels like you are drowning, gasping for breath; and the next minute, God is calling out the things that be not as though they were. Utterly thrilling.
I have known God on days it didn’t rain on the seeds I sowed; days the demands of repentance were so overwhelming that I could barely let out a whisper. In those days, I experienced God as the keeper who neither sleeps nor slumbers. “He that keepeth Israel.”
I also remember the days that led me into more depths and heights of his character. Days I came to know him as a Father and the giver of abundant life. “Now this is eternal life, to know God.”
How about the days that shaped my reality? The days the Lord came, and he stayed; so that I could relive the moments on days it would become difficult to keep my head above the billows. “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.”
And the days I experienced the wonders of miracles and his mercies. These, he did, so that everyone who looks at my life can stand and say, “There is nothing impossible for God to do.”
The days he taught me to serve, just like Jesus did, without guile or complaint. “I have set an example, that you should do as I have done for you.”
And the days he taught me to interpret my times and seasons, so I could patiently watch and wait for the salvation of the Lord. “The Just shall live by faith.”
These days have culminated in this life, and I am in awe of it.
I am in awe of the dazzling colours that make up this magnificent art and knowing the one who holds the pastel makes it even more thrilling.
It’s the reason I can flap my wings to the ends of the earth because The Lord commanded it.
© Iyanu Fatoba