Decoupage

 

Decoupage

Revelation 18:4 “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.”

Romans 12:2 “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

Ephesians 2:10 “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

James 4:14 “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”

Romans 9:16 “So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.”

     Decoupage: This word is fashioned from Middle French decouper, the prefix de- ("from" or "away") and couper ("to cut).

     My wife uses a rotary cutter.  It is a small, sharp tool.  Held in her hand, she rounds the edge of the pattern and separates fabric from the keep and what is discarded.  So sharp is this tool that great reverence is given.  Its blade is even drawn in to a protective sheath when not in use.

     What if God, wanting to call His Church out of the Gentiles, uses a similar cutting Wheel?  He wants to separate using the defining edge of His Son.  This tool, always to keep keen, performs His work undaunted.  The division principle He uses to define His Church in the midst of world corrupted.

     That is global, the overall concept.  But God is personal working with everyone of us in transformation.  He prizes our accomplishments and puts them on display.  He does not say we are His workmanship for nothing.  In His immense attention spread abroad, His eye is upon everyone of us.  But we are as paper.  A fume when consumed by the fire of this world.  From dust and to dust we return.

     In this brevity we call life, He records and lifts up the images, the snapshots of His children in their heroic acts of selflessness.  In decoupage, a protective layer is then lain over to preserve the composition.  God is eternal.  He teaches us to invest likewise.  Somehow, in this temporal existence, our actions are marked by God into a wonderful tapestry of most fragile events.  His eye is surely upon us and He is pleased.

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