Solving The Puzzle

My wife took a picture of me and our grandson.  We're trying to put a puzzle together. As I looked at her picture I thought, "Aren't we all trying to do the same thing in life?"

Here's how my grandson and I do a puzzle. First we find all the border pieces and corner pieces. We put those together first. Then we look at the picture on the box. Well, we should. We don't. We just try stuff.

It would probably be easier if we looked at the box. It shows what our puzzle should look like when it's done. That would be way too easy though.

It was fun watching our grandson figure out which puzzle piece goes where. Last year, he'd just try joining one piece with another. If they didn't fit he would get frustrated and pound the puzzle pieces, even though they didn't match.

This year though he began to look for the correct piece. "Where's the piece with the star on it Grandpa? I don't see it. OH! Here it is!" And he'd pick it up and drop it right into place. Smart kid.

Our lives are like puzzles. We try fitting different pieces together. Work, family, relationships. When they don't fit we pound on them, trying to make them fit and conform to OUR will. When they don't, we get mad and give up on them.

What we need to do is look at the key to the puzzle - the picture on the box. For us humans the key to the puzzle of life is the Bible. The Bible tells us how the puzzle pieces of relationships and life should fit together to create the amazing finished image that God desires - the image of our God. You and me.

"This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one." - Ephesians 5:32

Are you have trouble putting the pieces of life's puzzle together? Talk to the puzzle master. And if our grandson is not available, talk to God. He is the one who created all of the pieces in the first place.

Mystery - Selah