BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION

“So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.” ~ Genesis 45:8

REFERENCE: 

Genesis 45:3-11

I often wonder why some ‘ugly’ paintings sell for astounding sums of dollars at auctions. A painting by Willem de Kooning, “Woman III” (see here), was sold for $137.5 million in 2006. It looks like money wasted, but in its seemingly meaningless brushstrokes, there is beauty worth paying millions for. The billionaire, David Geffen, who bought it, saw beauty in the imperfection.

Life often mirrors imperfection; things don’t go the way we want, prayers seem not to get answered, expectations are delayed, good things seem to come with effort, and our reality looks nothing like our dreams. We wish favor would always smile on us, our marriages would be perfect, our children would have no social mishap, and our start-up will become a **unicorn. We wish life runs smoothly without the upsetting bends of betrayal and lack.

Joseph’s life was a series of reversals; from home into the pit, into slavery, and into prison. He must have looked at his life and seen only imperfection. But God often works through reversals. Envy and dispute among brothers usually ruin families e.g., Esau and Jacob, Cain and Abel. Yet, God used these to preserve Jacob’s family through a famine. Joseph could not have been the shepherd and stone of Israel if his brothers did not shoot at him and hate him. His betrayal by his brothers led to their survival; those that wickedly sold him into Egypt later benefited from the good that came out of it. What the enemy meant for evil, God turned around for good; what they did wickedly, God used to preserve lives.

You may be in a season of life where all you see is imperfection. You have many unfulfilled desires, and seemingly moving backward or further from your goals. God is a Master Artist; what you think is meaningless brushstrokes is the work of a Genius. All may not yet make sense, but there is beauty in your imperfect circumstances, and God will soon bring it out. Your ‘David Geffen’ will come as compensation, as restoration, comfort, breakthrough, business growth, etc. David Geffen saw in that painting what others did not see. God will bring people who would see a wife, husband, business partner, employee, friend, trainer, professional, etc., in you. He will take all your seeming imperfections, and bring beauty out of them in Jesus’ name.

**Unicorn (in business) is a start-up valued at one billion dollars or more.

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ADDITIONAL TEXTS:

Genesis 49:22-26 & Genesis 50:16-21

CONFESSION:

+ Dear Lord, I trust You with the times and seasons of my life. I know You are working on my circumstances and relationships; please don’t stop. I may not see, feel or hear You now, but I believe my end will be better than my beginning. I do not focus on the imperfections in my life because I know my God will bring beauty out of them. What the devil thought will write me off, will be used by God to lift me up, in Jesus’ name.