I never could understand the fascination that my daughter had with doing puzzles. Once she got started on one, she was obsessed with it till it was finished. She would ask me to join her in this adventure but to me, it was torture. I would rather pull my hair out than to stare all day at those misshaped forms. I would finally pick up two pieces, that I just knew, were a match only to discover that the only way they meshed was if I smashed them together. My daughter would just look at me, grimace and laugh. She knew I was a hopeless case.
Since I was a disaster at assembling puzzles, I don't know why I thought I could remotely orchestrate my life on my own. The video clip above makes me think that the hands are God's hands. He is trying to put my life together and I'm that pesky bird disrupting His perfect picture.
Everything that has occurred in my life has been a well planned out piece of my puzzle. One piece fitting perfectly into the next; each section vital for the remaining picture to be completed.
There have been times, that I tried to push my own puzzle pieces together even though they obviously didn't match up. I thought, I knew what was best for me. I tried to view my future from MY perspective. However, I don't have the panoramic view of my life as God does.
I can only see the here and now. He saw my beginning, and my past. He also knows my present, future, and my eternity. He has a plan and a purpose for my life to give me a future and a hope.
He wants the best for me. I don't always know "what the best for me" is, but He does.
So when unexpected and undesirable events happen in my life; I am learning that the picture on the box of my life's puzzle is taking on the shape; that He is designing. I wait and watch to see the glorious plan that He is constructing for me. His design for my cover picture on my puzzle box has always been so much better than what my "will" for my life could have been.
Do I want to be the hands to organize the events in my life or do I want the One who knows and sees everything; to be the Master puzzle designer? My will or His will?
How about you? Your will or His will?
Psalm 138:8 The Lord will perfect that which concerns me. (Amplified Bible)
Beautifully said, Carletta!