Saturday, 28 January 2012

Paint Pots

One morning, during worship at our church, I had an image of lots of different pots of coloured paint with each pot, a different vibrant colour. I got the impression that God wanted to use the paint to paint a picture of his kingdom. This would mean that the paint would have to come out the pots and be painted on the wall or canvass. It was no use in the paint pots; the paint had to be painted on the wall or canvas to produce the picture.

I wondered what the different pots of paint represented. I felt that each pot of paint represented a different church and each colour a different tradition or denomination. Each one would bring a different colour or texture to the picture God was painting. On their own, one pot of paint would produce a monotone picture but together they could be used to paint a multi coloured picture of the Kingdom.

As I reflected on the image of the pots of paint a couple of thoughts came to me.
We need to be willing to come out of our pots and be painted on the wall in the service of God in his kingdom. 

We should be prepared to acknowledge the work of other traditions and denominations in the development of the kingdom and be willing to play our part alongside one another in the painting the picture God wants to paint.





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