Surrendered Design

“When you are free to be all that you were created to be then you are really free.”

Loren Thornburg

The rains come down and the curls come out. No matter how much I straighten my hair or use products my naturally curly hair returns to curly when it gets wet.  It is naturally curly and so it will always return to its natural form.  In more ways than our hair we all have a natural design.  No matter how much we want it to be different or try to make it look different our natural design will eventually surface.  It’s how we were created.  It was an intentional design.  Just as I’ve come to embrace my curly hair so too we must embrace our natural design.  It’s beautiful when it happens.  For there we find freedom to be who we were created to be and it just comes naturally.  Not only does it come naturally but it's needed.  It’s time to surrender to your design.  

“For it was You who created my inward parts;  You knit me together in my mother’s womb.”

Psalm 139:13 HCSB

You were created by the Creator of the Universe with a particular design in mind.  It was not an accident, it was on purpose.  So often all we can see is the hard parts of how we were created.  The parts we don’t like and the ways we wish we looked different both inside and out.  Yet, God created you.  I don’t always understand God and all of His ways but one thing that is clear throughout scripture is that He is intentional and He has a bigger picture in mind than what we see.  So what if we started seeing the other side of those hard parts?  What if we started seeing the good in them? Now what do you see?  God created you on purpose for a greater purpose.  In order to enjoy the greater purpose we have to embrace every intricacy of our design and our Designer.  Surrender to Him and His design of you and your life.  Start seeing what He sees.  Start seeing His great design.