The Bible for Women

Weekly Devotional

The Weaver

A loom is a device for weaving yarn into textiles. There are different types of looms but the main purpose is to hold the warp threads (lengthwise threads) under tension to facilitate the weaving of the weft threads (yarn). Early looms were very tedious and the weaver had to raise and lower each warp thread one at a time to allow the weft thread to pass through. Much work and time was put into weaving a beautiful garment or rug. In many parts of the world, people still practice the art of handweaving items while many use computer powered weaving machines. How special would it be to receive a handwoven garment or rug for your home; to know the time and effort placed into every weave and the fingers who so carefully placed each thread.

God is a weaver. God does not use a computer generated loom. He uses His very hands to help us carefully weave our lives. With God as our guide, our lives will turn out beautiful no matter what types of thread we have used. As we put our trust in Him and our faith in Him, He will produce a beautiful person. As we study His Word, He will help the threads of our lives become more beautiful and more right. He will help us with our choices, with our tongues, with our fruits of the spirit. He will help us release our guilt. He will help us forgive. He will help us let go of a heartache, a loss, a failed dream. At the end of our lives, we will be able to see the blessings that have been so carefully woven into our souls. We will one day realize why certain threads were woven in a particular way.

When we give our souls to Christ and believe that He is the one true and living son of God, then on that Day of Judgement, the Father will not see the mistakes we have woven along the way. He will not see our bad choices. He will not see those times we failed to listen to Him. He will see the beautiful person that we have become because of Christ.

The following poem has an anonymous author:

My Life is but a weaving between the Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors he worketh steadily.

Of times he weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride

forget He sees the upper and I the underside.

Not til the loom is silent and the shuttles cease to fly, shall God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why.

The dark threads are as needful in the weavers skillful hand as the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned.

Psalm 51:9-11 

 9Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

 10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

 11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

May God bless your week. Margie