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“…..being
confident of this, that he who began a good work
in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
( Phil 1:6)
We were putting together a
puzzle over Christmas vacation, a
tradition that started in the family back some time ago. We
set up a card table and the unspoken rule
of the house is, “Don’t pass by without placing a piece in the puzzle.” However, this year we discovered that an
edge piece was missing. So,
when a
piece is missing, do you finish the puzzle anyways?
Or, do you throw the thing away knowing that
the picture will always remain incomplete? I
mean, what’s the point if you don’t get to see a
finished project?
We might end up throwing that
project away, but not the more important
puzzle we all work
on. I’ve often thought about life as
being a bit of a puzzle. Sometimes
God
enables me to see where a certain event, person, or occurrence fits
into the
bigger picture of life, but other times it is a mystery where something
fits in
the bigger scheme of things. Yet I know
that there will be no missing pieces in the end, Christ redeems and
fills it
all, and God never wastes anything. It
will all be for His glory and the painting He is making will be worth
the wait. God knows the final
picture, He
holds
all the pieces, and in the end it will be a completion. For
now, I’ll just keep putting the pieces in
place by doing the works He created in advance for me to do, giving Him
thanks
in all things!
For we are God's
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do
good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
(Ephesians 2:10)
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