“Teacher, teacher, the puzzle is missing some pieces,” I heard from my 5 year-old Sunday School class. Looking at the puzzle they were putting together I could immediately see their dilemma. All the pieces of the puzzle went in just right except for the last piece. To them something had to be missing but it wasn’t. They had put one of the alphabets into the wrong place. The Y was in the V spot with no problem, however, the V piece wasn’t quite as cooperative. It wasn’t fitting just right where the Y belonged.
We do that with the spiritual hole that is designed in all of our hearts. God created it there to lead us to Him. He’s the piece that isn’t missing but temporarily misplaced. In His place we use sports, hobbies, food, relationships with others, and material items such as TV, IPODS, cell-phones and so much more to fill the hole but they just don’t work. They may give us a sense of “fulfillment” but they are only temporary solutions to what needs to be forever.
Put God first in the place He belongs in the center of your heart, life, thoughts, actions, and attitude and watch the other pieces of the puzzle fall in place. Expose the lies of Satan he is telling you that other things will do the trick because they won’t. Go for what will last, the best fit, Jesus Christ. Not the temporary that is here today but gone tomorrow.
© 2009 Karen J. Gillett @ Pencil Marks and Recipes Publishing
We do that with the spiritual hole that is designed in all of our hearts. God created it there to lead us to Him. He’s the piece that isn’t missing but temporarily misplaced. In His place we use sports, hobbies, food, relationships with others, and material items such as TV, IPODS, cell-phones and so much more to fill the hole but they just don’t work. They may give us a sense of “fulfillment” but they are only temporary solutions to what needs to be forever.
Put God first in the place He belongs in the center of your heart, life, thoughts, actions, and attitude and watch the other pieces of the puzzle fall in place. Expose the lies of Satan he is telling you that other things will do the trick because they won’t. Go for what will last, the best fit, Jesus Christ. Not the temporary that is here today but gone tomorrow.
© 2009 Karen J. Gillett @ Pencil Marks and Recipes Publishing
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