"The missing pieces"

Puzzles are one of my favorite things to do when i have enough free time! I believe i get it from my grandma, in fact I remember having "puzzle parties" at her house. Everyone comes together for a common purpose; to, with one piece at a time, put the puzzle together. We always got the challenging ones where all colors are relatively the same, and when finished it covers the dinner table. If you take the time to sit back and think about it, puzzles can be related to our lives in many ways!

If your good at puzzles and know what your doing you'll do the edges first. It gives you a better view as to where everything else goes. It is the boarder and what holds everything else together. And without it the puzzle would be incomplete and always lack something. Even worse it would fall apart. In the same sense, we must have a boarder set up, something that brings clarity to everything else. Something that holds the rest together and if it ever falls apart, you must fix it in order to continue. Our "boarder" is also known as our foundation. Your life must be set on the right foundation or everything can come tumbling down.

Another reason i love puzzles is because they remind me of the church. If you've ever had a puzzle that once you found the last piece and put it in its spot you look around and realize there is one more piece missing. No matter how small that piece is, your mind becomes completely consumed with finding that one missing piece. You don't care about the rest of the puzzle anymore because after all they are all in there place. I am grateful to God for revelation. I thank God for creating puzzles because for even the slightest amount of time i feel like i understand His thinking. For a moment, i feel more connected to God then ever.

You see God created puzzles for us to understand His word at another level. I don't understand our mindset. When God doesn't answer us right away, or do what we want we get all needy and selfish. We demand Him to answer and at times if He doesn't we say forget it and go back to our old ways. But God is saying "look at the puzzle, your in your place. What about them? What about the lost? I have to find them!" We must remember "the whole don't need a physician." We are already whole, and its time for us to take our mind and focus off of ourselves and place it where God's is...on the lost! The puzzle can not be completed by us thinking of ourselves.  God is calling us to come together with one purpose; getting the puzzle(the church) together one "piece" at a time. Focus on Him and His will and you'll never have to worry about your life again.

FIND THE MISSING PIECES!!!