Monday, April 5, 2010
10:26 PM | 
Posted by
nb |
In 2008 and 2009 I worked for a Christain company that let me do a weekly devotional. It was a really strange, exciting time for me because I had NEVER, EVER done anything like that before. Never planned to, or prayed to...it just "happened".
The thing that was so exciting about it was that every single week the Lord would give me something to say! With a visual! Every Monday (my day off) I would get an idea and make enough of the "thing" for everyone there (only about 12). When they left the meeting on Tuesday they always had something to display on their desk to help them remember what I had said. The plus to that was that any new person coming in would always ask about the things and each person had an opportunity to share.
I plan to share as many of those lessons as I can remember because some were especially good and I don't want to forget them!
Another thing, I was able to find charms to go with a lot of the lessons so now I have a "testimony necklace" and some of the folks have "testimony bracelets. When there is a charm I will try to include a picture.
Life is like a puzzle and God has the box top.
Have you ever tried to put a puzzle together without the top of the box? Pretty much impossible!
God is the only one that sees the final picture and He’s not telling! He will hand us one piece at a time…Some pieces are dark, and/or without color… we don’t love those pieces so much. The dark pieces are the dark, hard, places in our lives, when we don’t feel like God is even there…He doesn’t seem to be listening. We may not like the dark place but it is critical to our final outcome…our picture.
Thankfully, He knows which piece to hand us, when.
When I went to buy a puzzle so I could give each person a piece to remember the devotional, I could believe the puzzle I found! This was it!
What a COOL PICTURE! I almost didn't want to give away pieces! But I did. And, I was able to add to the devotional. It is actually a PERFECT picture of what our lives should look like!
We should be a reflection of him, his hands extented, helping his children along their path.....sometimes carrying them, but sometimes just holding their hands until they get past the hard place.
The thing that was so exciting about it was that every single week the Lord would give me something to say! With a visual! Every Monday (my day off) I would get an idea and make enough of the "thing" for everyone there (only about 12). When they left the meeting on Tuesday they always had something to display on their desk to help them remember what I had said. The plus to that was that any new person coming in would always ask about the things and each person had an opportunity to share.
I plan to share as many of those lessons as I can remember because some were especially good and I don't want to forget them!
Another thing, I was able to find charms to go with a lot of the lessons so now I have a "testimony necklace" and some of the folks have "testimony bracelets. When there is a charm I will try to include a picture.
Life is like a puzzle and God has the box top.
Have you ever tried to put a puzzle together without the top of the box? Pretty much impossible!
God is the only one that sees the final picture and He’s not telling! He will hand us one piece at a time…Some pieces are dark, and/or without color… we don’t love those pieces so much. The dark pieces are the dark, hard, places in our lives, when we don’t feel like God is even there…He doesn’t seem to be listening. We may not like the dark place but it is critical to our final outcome…our picture.
Thankfully, He knows which piece to hand us, when.
When I went to buy a puzzle so I could give each person a piece to remember the devotional, I could believe the puzzle I found! This was it!
We should be a reflection of him, his hands extented, helping his children along their path.....sometimes carrying them, but sometimes just holding their hands until they get past the hard place.