"FEARLESS" By Meg Foster

This is a painting which I finished earlier in the year; it was a painting that I was sure I knew where I was going with; a semi abstract landscape, which is a fairly typical subject for me to paint, but over and over I could not resolve the composition.

Then God broke in…..

We may think we know how things are going to map out but God says that he is a lamp to our feet and a light to our paths.

As I paint I sometimes arrive at a familiar place of ‘’oh my goodness; where am I going with this!?’’ . Then, take a deep breath, ‘’Ok God where do you want to go with this?’’ Then a deepening and growing awareness of His presence comes over me and I know that Holy Spirit is speaking to me.

This is one such time: I completely painted over what I had done and felt Holy Spirit take my hand and show me what he wanted to say. I began inscribing and scratching into the surface of my now almost blacked out painting and this is the result.

As I have been praying over this coming year I have become very aware of the process of this painting again. We may think that we have it all planned out but what God wants is utter surrender, complete abandonment of our plans and ways of working as he alone will show us. I do not know what lies ahead but what I do I know is that if I am completely at one with Holy Spirit and surrender to his way then what is there to fear? I have been stripped to the core this year; it has been one of the most exposing and painful times of my entire life and I know that many of us can testify to this too.

However dark it may become; He is our light and we will be seen and be marked in such stark contrast. Where we move atmosphere will shift; when we speak Jesus, miracles will break out; where we place our feet, the presence of God will be manifest, where and who we reach out to; healing will flow, where we feel at our most exposed, vulnerable and transparent is where we will meet with him face to face and we will be changed…..