Truly, God is like a master artist to me, permitting our differences and working it all together for the good!
Some truly are like sapphires and some rubies and so on and as you say the important part is that each of us follow the Spirit. (Romans 8)
And I assure you, dear brother in Christ, striving to be a diamond despite the overwhelming likelihood of failure, is precisely what the Spirit leads me to do.
But we are each different, like different colors in a master work of art. That, I assert, is the language of art.
My gift of the Spirit (I Cor 12) is encouragement, a Barnabas rather than a Paul and the apostle I most closely identify with is John, and the church, Philadelphia. That is probably why I have this particular leading in the Spirit.
But it is altogether beautiful that we are different.
Praise God!
Maranatha, Jesus!
AMEN!
And you . . .
oh yes, buggy bears . . .
uhhh . . .
God pours Himself through you masterfully and it's wonderful that you cooperate so well.
So there!
I truly concur.. God is indeed a Master Artist..
Our God with multiple personality's don't seem to be an artist. .
But is indeed an artist in multifarious ways..
Our lives are "some" of his paints and medium and canvass..
What a plan..
The Universal Architect and at the same time the Universal Archetype.. through Jesus..
An amazing display to observe..
I pity the fool that misses any of it...
The Universal Canvass is enormous... yet microscopic..
Is God cool or WHAT?... What a "guy" this God..