All the pieces are on the table.
All are different shapes.
All are different colors.
And you are to take each piece
and put it in the right place
so that it creates a beautiful finished piece of art.
Where do you start?
With one piece.
And then another.
And then another.
And, if you like putting together puzzles,
you are enjoying every moment of it.
And, if you don't like putting together puzzles,
you are not enjoying every moment,
and will go to great lengths
to try to force pieces together
that don't fit,
that you know don't fit,
but you will still try to make them fit,
because you don't have the patience
to enjoy the process of
putting together a puzzle.
But a puzzle was made to
to be put back together,
as it started as a
FINISHED WORK OF ART
that was
BROKEN APART
to be
PIECED
back together,
piece by piece
to become the
FINISHED WORK OF ART
that it was at the very beginning.
Sounds like life, doesn't it?
Once Upon A Time GOD stood back
and looked at HIS FINISHED WORK.
HIS PERFECT WORLD that HE just created.
And HIS PERFECT MAN and HIS PERFECT WOMAN
and said,
"IT IS GOOD".
But then HIS FINISHED WORK
started to BREAK APART
one piece at a time,
and all it all started with
ONE bite of a piece of fruit.
THE POWER OF ONE
to CREATE GOOD
and
THE POWER OF ONE
to DESTROY GOOD.
BUT GOD so LOVES
that HE couldn't leave
HIS ONCE PERFECT WORLD
to be
in PIECES,
so HE allowed HIS SON
to be BROKEN into PIECES
to bring
PEACE ON EARTH
GOODWILL TO MEN
to
restore what was
BROKEN.
What do you do when you can't make SENSE of the SENSELESS,
when BROKEN PIECES are all you see?
But what is the SENSELESS.
Oh when the arrows of
SUFFERING,
TRIALS,
CONFLICTS,
PAIN,
SORROW....
come into your life,
when you least expect it,
when you could have never imagined it.
So what do you do?
Do you or have you
ever tried to make SENSE of the SENSELESS
by trying to
make the BROKEN PIECES of your life
fit into place,
when instead
you end up
HOPELESS.
Because
HOPE can never be found it the
SENSELESS,
because HOPE is only found in JESUS
and HE ALWAYS makes SENSE.
JESUS is our only HOPE
in the here & NOW~
"Let us rejoice in our HOPE and the confident assurance of [experiencing and enjoying] the glory of [our great]
GOD [the manifestation of HIS excellence and power].
And not only this, but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and
rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance; and endurance, proven character (spiritual maturity); and proven character, hope and confident assurance [of eternal salvation].
Such hope [in GOD'S promises] never disappoints us,
because GOD'S s love has been abundantly poured out within our hearts through the HOLY SPIRIT who was given to us" (Romans 5:2-4).
HOPE IS
ALWAYS THE FINISHED WORK
IN THE UNFINISHED.
For what GOD started
JESUS completed
and that is where
HOPE is found~
in the middle of all
the
BROKEN PIECES,
because it is in
THE BROKEN,
when you
are at the end of yourself,
when you have exhausted all other avenues
and have one choice left~
TO SURRENDER FULLY
by placing all your HOPE
in the ONE who is HOPE
in
the HERE & NOW~
"Here I am God , arms wide open Pouring out my life
GRACEFULLY BROKEN"
(listen to the song below)
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