December 27-The Whole Picture

Good Thursday. Is your holiday season going well? Have you been keeping your family traditions? When my kids assemble for holidays, they like to work puzzles. So after dinner, the table is cleared and the selected puzzle comes out. The edge pieces are the first pulled out and then each piece is sorted by color. It’s a fine art of puzzle working. While they are working with the pieces, you couldn’t begin to say what the picture might be, but when the puzzle is completed, the picture is complete. 

How much is that like our lives? When we first start out, it is impossible to tell what our journey will look like, but as we go along and more pieces are added to our picture, you start to see a pattern appear in different areas. When we finally leave this life, our picture is complete and it’s clear what our lives were. Was it a life lived for oneself? A life lived in service to family and friends? A life lived to store up treasure? A life dedicated to a profession? Or a life lived subjected to the Lord God Almighty? 

“And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.” ‭‭1 John‬ ‭5:11-13‬ ‭NIV‬‬

So how should we then live? As one who believes in the name of Jesus Christ. “Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;”

‭‭I Thessalonians‬ ‭4:1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Dear Lord, thank you for showing us how we should live and where we should store our treasures. Help us Father to abound more and more in you, that our lives may be found faithful. We praise you Jehovah God and worship you for your grace upon our lives. You are the Almighty one of Heaven and we seek to please you by a righteous steadfast life lived walking the path you have chosen for us. Amen and amen. 

Love you dear friend, 

Pam


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