fabric and threads

This morning is bright and sun-filled.  As I drove to a favorite spot to meet with the Lord, I thought of how life can either be like "threads" or "fabric".  Threads are like different pieces of our lives: family, work, decisions, worries, hopes, plans and dreams, relations with people, relationship with God.  Life can be like a box full of these threads.  Each thread can seem to stand alone, apart from all the others.  Each thread can hold our concern or our attention and, taken together, the threads make up the pieces of our lives.  What we need is a "fabric" for living that pulls the threads together into clothing, a blanket, a covering.  The threads are too vulnerable and lacking in strength or purpose until they are pulled together into fabric or cloth.  I looked to see how fabric is made.   Here is a quote(from eHow website) about how wool is made into fabric:

 

"Once the wool has been spun into thread, a weaving loom is threaded with warp, or vertically oriented threads. The weft, or horizontal, thread then is run over and under each of the warp threads. As the weft threads are pushed down with each row, wool fabric is created." 

 

Wool is converted from threads to fabric by placing them on a loom.  First the vertical threads are established.  Then the horizontal threads have a base to be woven over.  The horizontal threads are tightened over the vertical to make fabric.  Then the threads find their purpose in useful material.  In a sense, we are meant to be on God's loom.  When our heart is in line with Him, we establish the vertical threads that all the other concerns of life can be woven over so that our lives come together in a fabric that is useful.  I believe we were meant to be more than a box of threads...we were meant to be fabric of the Lord (and He uses sheep like you and me for the wool).

 

2 Chronicles 3:¹⁴ He fashioned the curtain of violet, purple, and crimson fabric and worked a cherub design into it.

 

blessings,

Rob Smith