Reflections/snoitcelfeR on James 1:22-24

So the journey with this Art Parable started more than 20 years ago and I am still discovering the meaning of these scriptures. I am posting the initial drawing I sketched in 1996 of Reflections/snoitcelfeR ©1996 Debbie Turner Chavers.
This is a bit of an introduction into how my scripture study, drawing, and painting of Art Parables processes over time, sometimes over years!
*I will post the "finished painting" from this 1996 sketched version at a later date.

As with any endeavor in our walk with God, He has opened my eyes of understanding layer by layer.
Twenty years ago I was living in Hawaii and obviously that translated to my sketch.
When the Lord first showed me this particular image with James 1:22-24 I saw it quite personally.
Yet as with most things in our life, knowledge and application of bible study have changed me as God  has showed me the universal need of all to see Him.
So a lot of my imagery for my art parables are Water-Men to represent everyone, male and female.
At the beginning of my walk with Christ my thoughts were all about me, me, ME! and how His Word created "my life" imagery.
Therefore in the beginning a lot of my sketches..150 or so were personal renditions and then I began to see the bigger picture :-)
It is very clear that we were saved and gifted to share the Good News for all, all, ALL!

Reflections/snoitcelfeR 

© 1996 Debbie Turner Chavers

Initial sketch of James 1:22-24

In the sketch I drew a forest with many mirrors. I drew the female who had dropped her pack but was walking away, back to whence she had come.
An initial look into God's Word will not keep you free of your burdens. You may lay it down Initially, but life will attempt to give you more burdens to carry. But Jesus said in..
Matthew 11:28  Come unto me, all Ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

The surfer, he looked into the mirror and left. There are places that people left many years ago but the imagery and the impact of that time is still there. In the mirror of their hearts and minds. Jesus came to set the captive free. If freedom is desired, it has been provided.

1 Corinthians 13:11-12  When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I be know even as also I am known.


I wrote a poem about this initial Reflection drawing/painting in 2010 titled "Through a Glass Darkly"

Through a Glass Darkly 

I thought I saw you
As I peered through the glass

I thought I saw you
As the sun appeared
And the dawn broke free

I thought I saw you
But it was a mirror
And it was only me

© 2010 Debbie Turner Chavers


James 1:22  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your ownselves.
James 1:23  For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass.
James 1:24  For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.




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A Cup of Blessing

A Cup of Blessing
© 2005 Debbie Turner Chavers

I recently wrote a poem and it reminded me of the picture I painted in 2005 called a "Cup of Blessing"


A Cup of Blessing

I  was broken
As a vessel of clay
I have been broken

The parched lines of broken
Like a cracked desert floor
Have been revealed for public view
Where private grief has escaped on occasion
and shattered my watered facade
Piece by Piece

Away with You
Cup of Grief!
I am being made new
Peace by His Peace

The dawning of a new day has come
And it is He that I see
My resurrection
The Prince of Peace

I shall fly as with wings of a bird
My cup overflowing with His Love

There is a Cup of Blessing
which Never Runs Dry
Poured by my Redeemer
Jesus Christ
As He was lifted High.

~~


Song of Songs 2:10  My beloved spake and said unto me, Rise up, my fair one, and come away.

1 Corinthians 10:16  The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood  of Christ?  The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

Psalm 23:5  Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

John 12:32  And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

John 11:25,26  Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.  Believest thou this?




Links to some of my poetry from my journal "Letting Go of Cockatoo Dreams"

There Is A Time 
3 Poems From My Journal
On Purpose
He Showed Me The Rain 
At Heart I Am a Child
Cross Road 
July 1,2011
A Mother, A Proverbs 31 Woman
A Prayer of Blessing 
A Prayer For You
Letting Go of Cockatoo Dreams
Be Still
I Long For You
Ye Must Be Born Again 
Practice


Article- Ruffled Feathers
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Scripture references taken from the King James bible.

The Prodigal and Family



The Prodigal and Family
copyright © 2010 Debbie Turner Chavers

The Prodigal is an example of choices and God's redeeming love for you and I. Most people at one time or another identify with being the prodigal son, but I want you to notice the pouting eldest son.
It is hard to watch someone else use and abuse the mercy of God and not be offended, even as the elder son was offended.
To work day in day out to do the right thing and still see it rain on the just and the unjust. But there is a need to remember that all that He is, all that He has, He has given to us, to those who would call upon His name and walk in fellowship with Him.

Luke 15: 31, And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

Luke 15:17   And when he came to himself.

The very thing that causes me to worship God because of His goodness to me, makes it hard to understand the choice that He gives us all. The ability to choose, even if the choice is wrong.

God has no desire to see His children suffer, to be in want, to waste their inheritance. So choose life.

John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

I love where scripture states in Luke 15:17, And when he came to himself.

There is a need to recognize our total dependence on God, a reality check.

That even though He allows us to choose, He is ever wooing us to himself and waiting with open arms to welcome us home after we repent from going our own way.

If you are the prodigal, repent and come home, God is waiting with open arms.

If you are the elder son, repent and enjoy the bounty of the Father, who has given all good things unto you.

~Debbie

You can read more articles featuring this Art Parable...
Repost of The Prodigal and Family
Always A Place For You
Jehovah Jireh, He is Our Provider
Words Revolving

Matthew 5:45
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

The parable of the prodigal:
Luke 15:11-32

And he said, A certain man had two sons:

And the younger of them said to [his] father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth [to me]. And he divided unto them [his] living.

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put [it] on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on [his] feet:

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill [it]; and let us eat, and be merry:

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.

And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.

And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

And he answering said to [his] father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.


This poem and post entry is about the Prodigal from my LOLO-Encouragement journal .

Always A Place For You

There is and always will be a place for you.
In my arms
In my heart
In my fields
At my table
There is and always will be a place for you.

~© 2015 Debbie Turner Chavers

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Scripture references taken from the King James bible.