Stan Blaylock tells about a clear glass dining table in a condo that their family used for holiday get-a-ways. One of the favorite family pastimes was to begin assembling a picture puzzle and complete it during their stay. The glass table became the favorite place to put the puzzle together. Late one afternoon, after playing a round of golf, Stan and his father-in-law came in to find his wife lying on the floor under the table. She was coaching her mother about where the next piece of the puzzle should go. When asked why she was on the floor, she said it was easier to determine where a difficult piece of the puzzle should be placed from the back side, because it was not as confusing as looking at all of the colors and objects on the front side.
His life lesson can be ours today as well: Life can be confusing on this side. We can’t always see where the pieces of life’s puzzle fit in. Heartache, bitterness, loneliness, inferiority and depression… our ‘Secret Struggles’… just don’t seem to fit, but if we could see it from the other side [God’s view] it makes perfectly good sense to place that difficult piece in that exact place. We can’t always see how Romans 8:28 can be true, until we take this perspective. When we look at it from the other side, we will realize it has worked for our good… Trusting God in the sad seasons of life, when we have hidden hurts, will result in a stronger faith as we trace His hand through it all.
Pray with me… Loving Father, as we trace your hand in our yielded lives, we come to trust your heart for us. We trust that the plans you have for us are plans to prosper us and not to harm us. We trust that your Word is in our best interest always. We trust that you are at work in us, by the Holy Spirit, to shape us into the likeness of Your Son and our Savior, Jesus. In His name, amen.
Blessings,
Pastor Ken
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