Whether you are:

• Trying God for the first time.
• Learning to have a relationship with God.
• Becoming a child of God.

Know there is a time and a place for everything (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8). What time is it now?

Frame of Providence

The Unseen Angle

Throughout life, you will encounter many perspectives. Some perspectives are jaded by immature realities, creating false outlooks. Other perspectives are rooted in truthful limitations of the possibilities. However you view life, perspective is formed by lived experiences. That's the funny thing about perspective: it is partly true. No matter how the perspective is formed—whether it is right or wrong—there will always be an unseen angle.

The swift pace of the world hides the unseen angle:

• Living for social media interactions,
• Speeding to beat competitors that are unknowingly heading in the direction of your destination, and
• Scamming your way to your desires.

All that and more blurs out the unseen angle. There is a way to find it, but first you must seek.

You Are the Frame

Seek a personal, intimate, unshakeable relationship with God the Lord. Forget all of the church hurt and Christian culture. Seek God's vision for your life as His child. He wants to grant you everlasting peace and abundance in your everyday life even before you get to heaven. He wants you to learn how to choose peace and abundance. To choose wisely, your perspective and opinion need to elevate. I am sure you have heard of "think outside the box." That's an elementary mantra; it's time to graduate to "you are the box."

Yes, you are the barrier, blockade, and limits you encounter in life.

You can reach your destiny when you stop listening to the doubt barrier preventing you from advancing toward your dreams.

You can live well when you tear down the blockades of comparison and lies filling in the truth gaps you were deprived of.

You can soar to greater heights when you break the limits weighing you down to the same patterns.

You can do all things above with Christ (Philippians 4:13). But this begins with the mind. 

Scripture tells us not to be conformed to the patterns of this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of our mind (Romans 12:2). The barriers, blockades, and limits you carry are often patterns you inherited without ever choosing—and renewal starts the moment you let God begin reshaping how you see.

Spend time with God. Seek Him for help in the hidden areas. He will reveal the habits, patterns, and routines you are unaware are out of order. Ask Him to reveal what you are missing, and He will lift the barrier, break the blockades, and make the limits disappear.

As the limits disappear, you will understand that you are not just a box; you are a frame. A structure that holds and protects a masterpiece. Your masterpiece is abundantly blessed with talents, skills, and a unique personality. All that you need is within you—for we are God's masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus to do the good works He prepared for us long ago (Ephesians 2:10).

Living It Out

If you want to live well, ask God to help you treat yourself and others well. If you want to reach your destiny, ask God to order your steps and change your To Dos to Can Dos. If you want to soar to greater heights, believe God can make the impossible possible (Matthew 19:26).

Don't feel like an enigma yet; just wait until you realize your greatness can no longer be contained. In time, you will learn that God empowers your frame. Every talent He gave you is meant to be shared. At the very core of you, God's original design exists and is waiting for you to execute. Take your time and enjoy discovering who you are and what you can pour out into the world.

You will begin to observe that God is everywhere and in everything. Start living life through the perspective that God wants you to grow, succeed, boom, bloom, flourish, and prosper. With this new outlook on your life, you will do all things through Christ as He lives within you. Get God involved in every choice you make, and He will help you maneuver every obstacle.

Allow God to frame your life in His holiness. 

Allow God to frame your life with His hope as He blesses you over and over again. 

Allow God to frame your life the way He sees fit.

Every one of His instructions is for your good. Every ask is to lead you to living in truth.

Whether you are a Realist, Dreamer, Pragmatist, or soon-to-know…His way of life is simply better. As you walk out your journey, use this blog to assist your understanding of the seasons you're in, the cycles you need to break, and the life available to you when you say "Yes" to God and accept His viewpoint.

This is the same journey Paul walked when the scales fell from his own eyes and he saw for the first time who God made him to be (Acts 9:18). That same clarity is available to you. May the scales fall from your eyes to see the beauty of life. May the fog clear from your mind as you live out your destiny. Your dream is just the beginning—with God there is no limit to your Frame of Providence.

This post is accompanied by an original piece of artwork, "Frame of Providence," created to visually capture this message. [View it here].

 

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Where do you go from here?

• Sit with one question this week: What "box" have you been calling your limit — one you now know was never big enough to hold what God put in you?
  
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This is just the beginning. Listen to It's Above Me Even Now to see Frame of Providence lived out, one story at a time.