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The Point Believe it or not, we are still sitting squarely in 2 Samuel 7. There are so many little nuggets of truth to be found here! We’re going to move down to verse 28, which reads: “And now, O Sovereign Lord, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.” We talked a little bit last week about making the shift between our plans for God and His plans for us, but today we’re going to talk about His words. Look at what that verse says — it says his words are true. TRUSTWORTHY. Beth Moore says, “We can know we’ve come ‘thus far’ when we begin to want most what God has already offered to us.” Ephesians 1:3 goes on to say that He will bless us with blessings. Everything of true value that we have, everything that we desire, has already been promised to us. But do we know that? Too often we talk about the Bible as a collective being — the Word. We know the Word, but do we actually know the words inside. Do we know the things he has told us? Do we know the things that he promised us? If I have learned nothing else over the last nine months, my hands and eyes have seen more scripture than ever before in my life. I’m moving beyond the overarching theme of the Bible and beginning to remember the individual words and passages. I recall them because I can picture the color scheme or the writing in the margins. God is using his Word to teach me his words.
The Process The tools used for today’s entry are almost identical to yesterday’s, except that I added some drop shadows. Chapter 7 continues on to the next page and like the page before, I had several phrases already underlined and boxed in with a pen. Using a complementary color, I applied watercolor paint around the section of verses I was reflecting on, but I opted not to color the entire page. I just used less and less paint the further out I got so that the color continued to fade to white.
One note about watercolors is that the page tends to bleed more the less of the surface you cover. For example, yesterday’s page was completely painted and wrinkled just a little. Today’s page is about half painted and wrinkled a little more. I’ve illustrated pages where I only highlighted a verse or two with watercolors and the page wrinkled significantly. The surface of your paper will draw up where wet and cause a wrinkle around the painted area.
After highlighting the verses I was focusing on, I added a phrase in the margin along with some journaling below. I sketched the letters out with pencil (thank goodness, because I made a few mistakes!) and went back with a pigment liner to draw them in. I used watercolors to fill in the bubble letters and added a drop shadow with a grey Prismacolor marker. I didn’t use a date stamp for this entry because I had already dated my notes during my Bible study class a few nights before.
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