Lest we think this life is about us, a puzzle serves as a gentle reminder of just how small we are.
After all, HIStory is His to write.
In Francis Chan's Crazy Love, he correlates our life to a movie extra with two-fifths of a second of air time featuring the back of their head. He points out how silly it would be to rent out the movie theater, invite all our family and friends, and wait for the big Ta Da two-fifths of a second in the movie that's supposedly "all about us". Obviously, this would seem ridiculous, right?
And yet, this is how most of us spend our life on earth, thinking somehow that it's all about us. It's not. It's not about our kids either. It's God's story. And it's all about Him. So how can we look to Him, point to Him, and glorify Him in all that we do? How can we magnify God's greatness best?
Remember the puzzle, His puzzle...and then remember that we are just one piece of that puzzle, small, yet intricately part of the big picture. How will we play our part?
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
Ephesians 2:10
P.S...I can't mention Francis Chan without thinking of this :)
Africa puzzle photo from Etsy:
