pieces of the puzzle
In order to appreciate this story you have to know something about me.
I am almost blind.
Like, for real.
My vision is AWFUL.
I'm telling you this story because it fits hand and hand with one of my favorite illustrations about the sovereignty of God.
Another thing you may or may not know about me is that, though I may struggle in my journey at times, I have a deep unwavering faith that God is fully sovereign and in control.
Alright, my story.
When I was in high school or perhaps just recently graduated, I was spending the night at my youth directors house. We were having a lock in of sorts.
We had done Bible study and had prayer time, played all sorts of game and all the things you would expect to do. Not everyone stayed all night and at some point there were only a few of us left. It looked like we were headed toward going to bed somewhere around 3:30 or so and I could not stand having my contacts in any long so I took them out.
I use a type of solution that once you put your contact into it, you MUST wait 6 hours before putting them into your eyes. If you don't it feels like you poured acid in your eyes.
One important detail, I had forgotten my glasses.
At this point I was rendered VERY helpless because of the state of my vision. Somehow, however, rather then heading to bed as I thought was our intention, it was decided that we should do a puzzle.
More than this, it was decided that we should dump the pieces out and hide the box so we would have no idea what the picture we were putting together was.
So take a moment to consider my position in this event. I was going to blindly attempt to fit together pieces of a puzzle that I had NO idea what it was supposed to look like.
I. Felt. Helpless.
I think of this story often as I have walked through my adult life.
You see, I realize that on any given day I am not in a much different position than I was at 3am around my youth directors table, carefully examining pieces of a puzzle that I didn't know how to put together.
I feel like in our lives sometimes we feel like we are walking around blindly.
We are trying to see the big picture but we don't know what it looks like and the piece that we are staring intently at is not one that we like. We are blind and we can't see how it could possibly fit with any of the other pieces.
I remember when we began to see the big picture of that puzzle it was NOT what I thought it would be when we started. But it was beautiful.
Are you guys catching the imagery here?
Our life is seldom what we set out thinking it will be. Often the pieces of the puzzle we are given don't fit together in a way that makes sense to us.
But I promise, the final result, is a masterpiece.
We can trust the Puzzle-maker.
I am almost blind.
Like, for real.
My vision is AWFUL.
I'm telling you this story because it fits hand and hand with one of my favorite illustrations about the sovereignty of God.
Another thing you may or may not know about me is that, though I may struggle in my journey at times, I have a deep unwavering faith that God is fully sovereign and in control.
Alright, my story.
When I was in high school or perhaps just recently graduated, I was spending the night at my youth directors house. We were having a lock in of sorts.
We had done Bible study and had prayer time, played all sorts of game and all the things you would expect to do. Not everyone stayed all night and at some point there were only a few of us left. It looked like we were headed toward going to bed somewhere around 3:30 or so and I could not stand having my contacts in any long so I took them out.
I use a type of solution that once you put your contact into it, you MUST wait 6 hours before putting them into your eyes. If you don't it feels like you poured acid in your eyes.
One important detail, I had forgotten my glasses.
At this point I was rendered VERY helpless because of the state of my vision. Somehow, however, rather then heading to bed as I thought was our intention, it was decided that we should do a puzzle.
More than this, it was decided that we should dump the pieces out and hide the box so we would have no idea what the picture we were putting together was.
So take a moment to consider my position in this event. I was going to blindly attempt to fit together pieces of a puzzle that I had NO idea what it was supposed to look like.
I. Felt. Helpless.
I think of this story often as I have walked through my adult life.
You see, I realize that on any given day I am not in a much different position than I was at 3am around my youth directors table, carefully examining pieces of a puzzle that I didn't know how to put together.
I feel like in our lives sometimes we feel like we are walking around blindly.
We are trying to see the big picture but we don't know what it looks like and the piece that we are staring intently at is not one that we like. We are blind and we can't see how it could possibly fit with any of the other pieces.
I remember when we began to see the big picture of that puzzle it was NOT what I thought it would be when we started. But it was beautiful.
Are you guys catching the imagery here?
Our life is seldom what we set out thinking it will be. Often the pieces of the puzzle we are given don't fit together in a way that makes sense to us.
But I promise, the final result, is a masterpiece.
We can trust the Puzzle-maker.
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