Listen...

So there we all sat, cold and tired, in the lecture hall. 6 a.m. ... devotional time.

Clive stands in front and says, “Today we are going to do something different.” Then he proceeds to hand out pieces of paper.

“Draw whatever I tell you, and I'm only going to say the command once so listen carefully!

Draw a rectangle 6cm by 3cm in the middle bottom side of the paper.”

Confused as to exactly what was happening, we empted to draw what we heard, even in our zombie-like state.

“Draw a line 6cm at a 60 degree angle, starting from the top right hand corner of the box.

Draw 2 perpendicular lines, 0.5cm apart starting 5cm in on the first box.”

I'm sure you understand why we all struggled a bit.

In the end, the drawing should have looked like a giraffe, but as you can see, mine looked like a persian carpet with a head.

I sat and wondered, "Lord, what can you teach me through this?", and I realised that this drawing is kind of like our lives ... we need to pay attention to the directions given by God. If we listen and obey, we will end with the correct picture and not a distorted image of what should be.

Pray!

Listen!

Seek!

Do!

Pray!