My mom likes to put challenging 1,000 piece puzzles together.  She had one with old-fashioned tea cups where almost every single cup had gold rims and small blue and pink flowers.  Another one was a solid picture of sprinkled and frosted doughnuts which, quite honestly, just made me hungry.  Her most recent puzzle is a football stadium packed with fans (Are you kidding me?).  When she dumps a box out I can’t help but think it will never come together, because it’s just a jumbled mess that doesn’t look like anything promising.  And yet every time, little by little, a picture begins to form.   It doesn’t happen overnight and mom has to keep working at it, but each time the final picture is simply quite amazing.

Unfortunately, sometimes life can be a complicated puzzle.  It just seems like a bunch of events that produce nothing but problems and chaos.  But take heart, God is working in your life right now to bring it all together.  From Ecclesiastes 3:11, “He has made everything beautiful in its time.  He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”   God had you on His radar for a long time.  Psalm 139:16-17, “You saw me before I was born.  Every day of my life was recorded in your book.  Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.  How precious are your thoughts about me God!  They cannot be numbered!”  Grab ahold of this thought-you are always on God’s mind.  He’s looking at all the seemingly impossible parts of your life and He’s fitting them together to create something beautiful.  So stay steadfast and keep watching, because your life is a work of art in the Master’s hands.