Yipee!!..i finally finished “editing” my Bible! This time it has a more satisfying design than the first three designs I tried before.^_^ I’m so haaaaaapppyyy!!

Anywhooo, ^_^ to give a little background about my Bible, this li'l’ Bible was actually just a worn-out second hand Bible that I found in church a few years back, but since no one has claimed it after all these years, I decided to ask for it and do a little tweaking (Since it was soo cute and smaallll)..^_^ Soooo, I asked for it then i brought it to a shop to have it book bound, but honestly i didn’t really like how they book bound it ‘cause the lettering and the color of the cover was so not my type. This is when it all started. When i got home, i rushed to my room and began taking out my art materials and got straight to work. Sadly, my first two designs didn’t really satisfy me. So, i decided to redo it (and i mean tear it up and cover it up all over again), then i finally came up with this design! Here are some pics:

 

I found this design so cute ‘cause it has a lock and key and it looks like a diary-slash-magic book!

So here’s how i made it. First of all, I used blue felt paper to cover up the whole book so it would have a nice feel to it. Second, i cut out some cardboard pieces to make the “wooden corners”, the “lock”, and those long strips near the spine. After that, I just used double-sided tape to stick the cardboard pieces in place. Next is the most interesting and undoubtedly the most FRUSTRATING of all. Thanks to the wonderful artistic wisdom of Mr. Neil Buchanan (from ART ATTACK!!), i was able to give a good texture to the corners and others through just the simple method of mixing Elmer’s glue with water and tissue. Yup! just tissue and you get a great texture and “rock-hard” durability. Then when the tissue-glue mix was all dried up, i brushed on another layer of glue so that it’ll be alot harder and stronger. Next up, i fixed up the sort of “lock thingy” with a golden string and i tied up a locket and a key that says “Jesus” to give it sort of a i dunno, a “dramatic” add on?? Anyway, basta it made it look really cute! Then i used a component from an old necklace that’s used for the thing that holds the other string together (you get what i mean!).

 

The last part, but no doubt my favorite part, the butterfly in the middle! i really have this thing for butterflies, almost all of the notebooks, things, and even my name (when I get a new book and stuff and i need to label it, i write my name in cursive and add a butterfly at the end) needs to have a butterfly! My friends all know that it’s mine when they see a butterfly! So how did i make the butterfly? Simple! i just followed a picture of a butterfly through pencil first, then polished it with a tech pen with black ink, and finally i filled in all the spaces with paint, but i didn’t use the “brush part” of the brush, but i used the other end which was alot thinner ‘cause it broke into half (you know the kind when the end becomes sort of like a “wedge” which makes the end a lot thinner and smaller, is wedge the right term?). Then, i just did a little polishing and corrections here and there then TADDDAAAA!! it’s FINISHED!!., YIPPEEE!!

 

Finishing something like this is so satisfying and I’m so thankful that God gave me this talent. It’s so great to think that The Great Artist gave you a little something to work on and enjoy.

Praise God for this gift!!

Now, if i can relate this to normal life, the first thing that comes to my mind is (well you can’t blame me for fist and foremost, i am a daughter ^_^) a parent correcting or getting mad at his or her child. Normally, when a parent is greatly “feared” or respected by his child, the child is usually speechless when the parent is angry and decides not to do anything stupid or disrespectful to further provoke the angry parent. Respect and fear. This illustration also depicts the parent showing his authority and the child’s response to this authority. If the child recognizes the parent’s authority, this recognition will move the child to respect and accept correction when disciplined by the parent.

The Lord can be related to the illustration i have provided above, except He is in a higher position than our human parents. The Lord is not an ordinary parent, but the GREAT GOD OF THE UNIVERSE. I heard from one of my friends that i suppose is the discovery of a new galaxy that is A WHOLE LOT BIGGER  than our milky way!!..can you believe that??..we can’t even travel to Pluto and we have another discovered galaxy out there that’s millions (i think) times bigger than ours?? and not only that, but there’s so much of the universe that is unknown to us, but the Bible says that God measures the whole universe at the span of his hand. can you believe that?? this is how great my God is! This Great God deserves nothing less than our respect and worship! But sadly, we tiny little people in the world are too focused on ourselves to even respect God. imagine a tiny ant talking back to a human being, telling the human being what to do, demanding the human to do what he wants and blaming the human when the human doesn’t do anything! crazy isn’t it??? well, NEWSFLASH!! That’s exactly how we respond to and treat God. It is definitely wrong. God is to be viewed for who He really is, and that’s the GREAT GOD OF THE UNIVERSE!

Malachi 1:6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?" says the LORD Almighty.”

Ok! So back to what i was studying in my devotions. The Psalm shows here that God cannot be denied when He is angry. Personally, i have experienced this and when God rebukes and corrects, it’s no laughing matter. He will bring you to your knees and silence you for sinning and not respecting His name! There were instances and circumstances that he allowed to happen to discipline me after i have disobeyed Him. For instance,  i actually experienced a grade below 80, and to me, it was TORTURE!! I’ve never had a grade below 80 in my life (and grades mean serious business to me)!! I cried my heart out and i knew right away that God was disciplining and rebuking me for the wrong i had done him. The verse that says that everything will lay still and says that “who can stand before you when you are angry”, yup,that’s happened to me! God’s rebuke and discipline is no laughing matter, and it’s true that you cannot stand before him because you’d be kneeling and hiding in shame.  His rebuke will cause you to fear and respect the Great God that you have sinned against. He’ll show you who’s BOSS!

Thanks be to God for His grace through Jesus Christ that He rebukes me when i do wrong! that he doesn’t let me go my own way, but he puts me in the right path ‘cause i’m His child. Only through the blood of the Lamb. Not through anything else!

HE ALONE IS WORTHY! GLORY TO THE LORD MOST HIGH!