WOVEN TAPESTRY

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A few weeks ago, we began our wilderness journey and ever since I keep seeing a picture of a quilt. The Spirit led me to look at quilts! Oh how I love fabric and all the beautiful colors!

The Spirit said, “Take a closer look at your tapestry”?

Our individual tapestry may look different from what we imagined, but God, the masterful dream weaver, does not make mistakes with anyone’s life and destiny. 

It may be too amazing for the heart or mind even to grasp, but you started in the imagination of God. He has already dreamed about you. Your tapestry is the divine journey that you are living right now. 

We are given a wonderful reminder spoken in Ephesians, “For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them.” Ephesians 2:10

So being God’s handiwork is a blessing but also good work in and through us is planned by God. 

Let’s think about the difference between the front and back of our woven tapestry? The front of the tapestry is art. In the hands of a skilled weaver it displays incredible artistry and fine detail. In fact, the world’s best art museums collect the world’s best tapestries and display them there as examples of a rare but beautiful form of art.

The back of a tapestry is a mess as it is made by weaving together different-colored threads, and the images and designs are created by the interplay between the different colors and textures. 

What is clear on the front is opaque on the back. The back shows something of the image, but it looks more like a child’s attempt rather than a master. It’s not smooth like the front but covered in knots and loose ends, lacking clarity and detail

We are meant to see and admire the front of the tapestry, not the back Romans 8:28, “That God promises to use every single event in our lives to bring about good.”

This metaphor serves as an effective illustration for how we get to see only the underside of all God is weaving together while we cling to the promise that someday we will see the upper side and marvel at what he has been doing all these years!

But we have another equally important illustration. The eye of the needle takes only one thread at time. As each single thread slides through the needle’s eye, it takes place in a picture slowly and patiently to reveal yet a larger picture which relates to subjects only the artist knows. 

Over and over the horizontal needle is threaded into the panel and woven in and pulled out until it becomes an intricate design. Our Creator the great weaver displays His workmanship in such brilliant colors. Each one to display a tapestry of his son Jesus. 

I’ve always loved the metaphor of God as a the skillful artist and our lives as His tapestry for which His work is woven. 

I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Colossians 2:2 MSG

Our delicate threads woven to form a beautiful journey to become God’s quilt! Every design is made of our faith and scriptures threads. Every thread slides through the needle’s eye, woven to takes its place to reveal the pure picture of God’s love.

I am contending for you that your hearts will be wrapped in the comfort of heaven and woven together into love’s fabric. This will give you access to all the riches of God as you experience the revelation of God’s great mystery—Christ. Colossians 2:2 TPT - 2 

Up close, the colors may seem to clash but these are the jarring memories threads filled with pain and wounding that only God’s Grace can meet. He brings a mix of His greens and purples that complement each other as the threads are tighten and strengthened to become His beautiful woven tapestry.

If we zoom out and we can see the full context of God’s tapestry and  The Spirit's anointing has been weaving incorruptible threads within our soul. Each guided step one thread at a time with no control of what’s been threaded or what will come next to form God’s beautiful pattern. 

Similar to a single detail of scripture, a thread can seem out of place or clash until we meditate on its meaning and sit with The father to reveal His intentions to be sown into our hearts.

Sadly, unless we walk in the Spirit, we usually only see the backside of our life’s tapestry. When we experience hard times in life, we rarely recognize their value. We might even beg God to pull some of our loose threads. God knows that doing so might unravel the masterpiece He has planned on the other side. We must learn to trust in God! We need to stop to recognize that our knots and loose threads, yes even the bad ones, form us into who we are. Each thread makes a beautiful pattern out the wine side to deliver a beautiful landscape of one’s inside. 

Can you see your wilderness is like a giant tapestry—maybe miles and miles high, miles wide and miles and miles deep and even multi-dimensional.

What’s more amazing is that it’s ever changing and personal to each one us. Your wilderness is a complex weaving from the heart of Jesus to form us for our destiny.God’s desire is to awaken our hearts to new adventures so that we are fully alive in Him. 

We are a royal children of the dreamer weaver, Our Father, we belong to a different Kingdom, one that is wild and free. There is something about living in the Spirit that is the truest kind of living.

And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; Acts 2:17

I believer you are ready to receive a fresh revelation about the wilderness process of dancing within your woven tapestry. This is God’s tapestry of love within your heart. 

When we have a thirst for God, we begin by crying out for heaven to invade our hearts. This is a cry for God’s radical Kingdom to invade us, as His clay vessels by praying, “Awaken me, Lord, to partnering with You. Even though I don’t see the big quilt, I have hope and I have dreams.” 

Once we do this… our woven tapestries become alive. There is one dream we all share, though we may not always be aware of it…. It is a dream that speaks of the longing: an intimate relationship with Jesus, our Bridegroom & King. Let’s turn our hearts now to discover what it this means to love God and His Son Jesus and to be loved by God!

“They beat the gold into thin sheets and cut it into threads, to work it in with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and the fine linen, into artistic designs.” – Exodus 39:3

Threads of gold are woven into the Israelites’ priestly garments. The golden threads symbolize the divinity of Christ. Jesus our Savior is the golden thread that weaves all Scripture together. He is the love that God weaves into the tapestry of our lives.

These colored threads symbolize our salvation journey; before we were saved, we were scarlet or earthly. When we are united with the blue of our heavenly Savior, we become purple… priestly, royal children of God. We are clothed with the pure white holiness and righteousness of Christ who is the golden or yellow thread that weaves our lives together.

“He has made everything beautiful in its time.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11 

This is how He weaves His tapestry within our hearts. God’s loving and watchful care over our lives is eternal. He has invested sacred blood and the life of His Son for us. He will never disappoint those who trust in Him. His ways are good and perfect. All we have to do is follow Him. Hallelujah!

And now here is a link to my devotional thoughts per this post 🌷

🦋Angela