The Thing About Puzzles

We've had a lot of rain lately. SO much rain that many communities around us are experiencing flooding. I mean, dams are overflowing, and people are being evacuated from their homes. That's a lot of rain!

While we know that "April showers bring May flowers," what do we do when we're stuck INSIDE because everything OUTSIDE is so wet? My wife and I do puzzles! 🧩

Puzzles help pass the time in our house, along with reading and household chores. At least our minds are getting some exercise while our bodies turn to flab due to inactivity.

I've noticed something in our puzzling. It is an perfect representation of our future lives here on earth, and also of our relationship with God.

God knows everything, from beginning to end. We, on the other hand, know very little about what lies ahead. It's like opening a jigsaw puzzle box and dumping it's contants out onto the table.

Think about your life in high school. Did you ever think THEN where you'd end up 40 or 50 years later? No! But, piece by piece, you are there now. God knew where you'd end up. He even knew some of us "had a few pieces missing," like myself. But here we are!

Our children and grandchildren do puzzles. If they only knew . . .

"Hey, Grandpa. Why are you smiling me while I'm doing my puzzle?"

"You're a great puzzler and I like to watch how you figure things out. You are doing well." - proud Grandpa.

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. ¹⁴I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." - Psalm 139:13-14

Omni-X

Who is God? What is He like? Is there anything He cannot do? The answers to all these questions are in the Bible. But here's an incomplete, insufficient, and absolutely pitiful summary.

Basically God is everywhere. God is eternal. He is not bound by time. He has no beginning and He has no end. He IS all and is IN all. He is 'omni' . . . everything!

He is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. 

In other words, God is in all-places at all times. He is all-powerful. That means He can do anything. God also KNOWS everything.

God is outside of every possible word or description that we could even think of. Mere words cannot contain Him. He is greater than we can ever comprehend.

So, why am I even trying?!

Because someone out there may be in a dark place right now. They might need to know that God is bigger than any hurt they could possibly be feeling. He has more compassion and love than can even be imaged. And He wants you to know that. God loves you! You!! Think about that. And let Him love you!!

"Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you." - Psalm 139:7-12