Psalm 139:13 (NIV)
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me
together in my mother’s womb.
My wife loves to do jigsaw puzzles so a few years back I
built her a jigsaw puzzle table complete with slide our shelves to help sort
the pieces. She can spend many enjoyable
hours placing those many pieces together to form a picture. As she opens the box you can see a guarantee that
says all the pieces are in the box… no need to worry if any were missing. She first dumps the contents of the box on the
table and is ready for the fun to begin! First came the corner pieces- a snap to find.
Then the border was placed together…no problem- straight edges were easy to fit
together. Next I had to sort by color, and the process became more complex.
As the process unfolds she glances at the picture on the
box cover showing what the finished project will look like. Some pieces fit
easily together, but others did not. Sometimes she tries to jam one puzzle
piece into another.. just knowing it was the one that belonged there... but
then realizing it was in the wrong place. There was no fit. She worked for a
long time on her puzzle, with some help from family members. Sometimes the progress was fast and other
times it was very slow. Sometimes long breaks were taken after all life doesn’t
just stop for the puzzle. Sometimes she
or another family member would be drawn to the table and look at the progress,
and take a moment or maybe much longer, to fit a piece or two into place. The
picture began to become clear… and finally it was time to put that last piece
into place. How everybody enjoyed the
completed work..
People are like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle in a box.
When we arrive, all the components for our entire life are wrapped up in the
package of our little bodies. Some of the pieces of life will fall easily into
place - like the corners and borders of the puzzle. Other pieces will not fit
too easily.. we may have to struggle to find the proper way for them to fit.
Sometimes we even try to jam pieces of our life together, trying to make them
fit the way WE think they should. But God had the master plan of our lives all
in that box before we were ever dumped into the world. He knew us even as we
were in our mother's womb, and He knew what the finished picture of our life
would look like. He never takes His eyes off us, and He lovingly takes the
pieces of our lives and fits them into place. The grand finale is when that
last piece is put into place… that is when we have gone home to be with the
Lord, and we are completed. The earthly picture is over, and the spirit is
radiating in Jesus’ fullness, having been made whole, beautiful and pure, just
like Him.
Dear Lord, we pray that You will grant to the people of our
nation the will to do good, to flee from evil, and to practice all
righteousness, making us respectful of life and sharers of Your blessings,
caring for one another in mercy and truth. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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