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Don't Let Your Color Fade

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I painted the hydrangeas with care next to my favorite verse in Scripture. Wide margins in my journaling Bible gave me room to draw my favorite flower next to . This verse has always been a prayer of mine — to become satisfied in God — and for many years I am grateful to say it is a reality that I have seen God work in my life.  

“For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.” ( NKJV)

But troubling times try to pull me out of that reality. When my heart hurts over someone’s trial or over one of my own, I can lose my sense of contentment in God and get lost in sorrow. I know He is able to work all things for good ( ), and I know that He loves us with an everlasting love ( ). He can answer the cry of every longing soul and fill every hungry soul with His goodness, as the verse says. So why do I feel so distraught when I know He is able? 

Because I let my color fade. 

Before I ever started painting hydrangeas next to , I wrote a statement of confidence in the margin — “You have satisfied my soul.” I used special lettering to make this truth stand out on the page, and I colored the inside of the letters with a blue marker. After I finished painting the hydrangea’s petals and leaves, I took a heat gun and dried the page. Then I noticed something—the blue in my letters had faded. Since the marker’s ink was water-based, the heat gun dried the ink and stole the color out of my letters. My color faded.

When we go through trials, we can feel like the life is being drained from our souls — our “color” is fading. But if we hold onto what we know about God — how He has satisfied our hearts in the past and what He can do now — we can retain the color that He has poured into our hearts. How beautiful those colors are! Colors of peace, hope, and joy. Colors of faith, courage, and determination. Colors that remind us of His love and faithfulness.

“Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.” ( NKJV)

In trial after trial, I have seen God’s colors of faithfulness stand fast. Brilliant shades that weather every storm and never fade. He has been faithful to give me wisdom when I didn’t know what to do ( ). He has given ways of escape out of temptation ( ). He has broken the chains of spiritual bondage when I was too weak to even lift one link ( ). He has calmed the storm in my circumstances or in my heart ( ). 

When a trial comes, don’t let it steal your color. Remember how God has been there for you in the past, and trust Him for the present moment. Keep a journal of how He has satisfied your heart, and read it when a trial tries to yank you into a different reality. Hold onto what you know of God, and keep your faith strong and your hope alive. Don’t let your color fade. 

© Copyright 2020 by Katy Kauffman. Used with permission.

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Katy
Kauffman

Katy Kauffman is an award-winning author, an editor of Refresh Bible Study Magazine, and a co-founder of Lighthouse Bible Studies. Her Bible studies for women focus on winning life’s spiritual battles, and she has the privilege of editing compilations written by Christian authors from around the United States. Her Bible studies include 2 Timothy: Winning the Victory, and Faith, Courage, and Victory. Lighthouse Bible Studies’ newest compilation, Feed Your Soul with the Word of God, is a 2020 Selah Awards finalist in the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. Katy contributes

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