Monday, August 16, 2010

The Jigsaw Puzzle of Life

I feel like a lot of people have probably wrote on this topic before me, but God has just kept it on my heart and I feel like I just need to write about it. It may or may not make sense to anyone, or maybe it will just be a lot of stuff people have already heard, but I’m just going to write what I feel led to write.

Life is like one giant puzzle. Each area of our life and most events are a puzzle in themselves as well. We are constantly trying to piece together a puzzle that only our Creator can put together. He is the only one who knows exactly where each piece goes and when each piece needs to be placed. He is the only solution.

Sometimes there are pieces of our puzzle that we think we are ready to put in place and may even feel like God is ready to have them placed, but they might not quite fit where we need them to. There may be other things that we have to put together first before that piece comes into play. We can’t get discouraged by the piece not fitting at the moment, but rather put our efforts into the pieces around it. We have to remember that God gives us each piece and tells us exactly where it goes and when to put it there and his timing is always perfect, whether we think so or not.

Whenever I put puzzles together I always found all the outside pieces first and made the outline of the puzzle. Whenever you do that you can’t stop working once you get the outside together, because you haven’t experienced the puzzle fully. You don’t know its full beauty until you finish it. When we start things in life we can’t just do it enough where we think we have the full gist of it. We have to keep persevering until we get what God intends for us out of it.

God creates these puzzles in our life, but not to confuse us- the bible tells us he is not the author of confusion. Rather, he builds these puzzles to allow us to put our faith in him. Jeremiah 29:11 tells us that God knows the plans he has for us, he knows how the puzzle is going to fit together perfectly and his plans will not make us hurt, but rather prosper and it is up to us if we are going to trust in God to put together the puzzle of the plans he has for us.

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