When I was a kid, I had three brothers. My sweet sister was not born until I was
sixteen years old. And my childhood was
before cell phones and the internet and x-boxes and … well you get the
picture. We had four Norman Rockwell
puzzles that we worked over and over again.
The odd thing was that all four puzzles were cut from the same die: all
of the pieces were interchangeable. The
first couple of times, we looked at the picture on the box lid to figure out
which pieces went where. But soon, we
didn’t even need the lid. We even knew
which of the four puzzles each piece went to, and we stored all four puzzles in
the same box. Hey, is your life like one
of those puzzles? So often we think our
lives should turn out perfect, just like the beautiful picture on the front of
the puzzle box. But when we begin to go
through life, it doesn’t turn out the way that we thought it should. We make mistakes, and then worse mistakes,
and then irreversible mistakes. What we
fail to realize early in life is that the dear Lord has a plan for our lives,
just like the picture on the box lid. We
fail to realize that our picture, our life, and God’s picture of our life aren’t
the same. Hey, the dear Lord knows what
is best for us; He knows how our picture should turn out. And we would do well to let the Lord pick out
the picture for us. Then all of the
pieces will come together much better.
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
Proverbs 3:5,6
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