The Ceiling that Wouldn’t Go Gray

The Ceiling that Wouldn’t Go Gray

We just repainted our bedroom ceiling for the 3^rd time.  This week!  It the kind of ceiling created from my dreams.  You know the ones you see on Pinterest?  Well, maybe not you guys.  But, the center is recessed to 9 feet with decorative molding inside the recessed area and more molding around the entire ceiling.  Hold on to all design description—we really are going somewhere with this. 

So, the plan is for a simple gray.  Not too blue and certainly not too brownish gray.  The ceiling was already painted Winslow Gray.  We have paint cans to prove it.  Folks, the ceiling is brown.  NO one would swear in a court of law that the ceiling was any kind of gray.  Now, I wanted a simply change to a simple gray.  But you all know how Pinterest stories go…8 GALLONS plus 5 quarts of different “sample” paints later, we think we have a gray ceiling.  The sun will rise and tell us if we truly do. 

Have you ever started out in what seemed like a simple faith adventure and you applied your faith and the thing simply wouldn’t turn?  Like that ceiling that we kept applying nice shades of gray—one turned baby blue, the second went back brown to perfectly match the original paint color, then too many painful attempts at sample colors to remember.  To finally, a simply gray.  Applying our faith can seem useless when we still come up without the answer.  It seems nothing is moving our situation, no matter what we do to it.

But Gloria Copeland said something that helped me.  She said, “In consistency lies the power.”  Notice, not Inconsistency.  But in consistency lies the power.  We keep applying the Word of God to our situation and just like in those paint colors, the true gray will appear.  Consistently, day after day after day, we apply the Word to our situation.  It is powerful.  The same kind of power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in us and that power is released when we say it out of our mouths.  Consistently.  The situation WILL turn!