My wife, Michele and I
like puzzles. Usually we work on 1000 piece puzzles sometimes 2000 never
anything less than 500. At the present time we are slowly working on a 2000
piece nighttime of Times Square, New Year’s Eve, a most difficult challenge.
Puzzles remind me of life. One goes through it constantly
trying to fit the right pieces into the right place at the right time.
Sometimes succeeding sometimes, a lot of times failing.
Life without God and Christ is like a puzzle without the
picture and you’re by yourself. There is much more guessing and many more
failures. I know the first 19 years of my life was like that. I had not missed
behaved but I was struggling to know who I was or what the puzzle looked like.
I wanted to do the right thing place the correct pieces of the puzzle into the
right place. But I just had no idea of why and how.
My U.S. Army recruiter had changed that for me. He
thankfully went boldly in a non-politically correct way and while on the middle
of the traffic jammed Schuylkill expressway witnessed to me as to whom Jesus
Christ is. My life change then as the picture of my puzzle came into view for
the first time. I know longer was alone in putting the puzzle of my life
together. Each piece became easier to place. I may not always be right in the
placing of the pieces, but I know that I am not alone while working the puzzle.
This Easter, April 20th is the time marking the
rising from the dead of our savior, Gods son, Jesus Christ. In John we are
taught. John 3 16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His
[a]only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. This is a very
simple concept. We are all sinners, God realizes this, Instead of continual
sacrifices of lambs for the atonement of sins, he (God) once and for all sent
his son to be the final sacrificial lamb. (Lamb of God). All you have to do is
1) Realize no matter what, God loves you. 2) Realize you are a sinner 3) Know
that God will not have sin with him and turn away from sin. 4) Believe that
Jesus sacrificed himself, died for your sins. 5) Know that you are forgiven and
begin a new life.
This is the time to get the picture of your puzzle in front
of you. Find a partner in placing those small but all important pieces. Find
Christ today! You don’t need me there or anyone else. Find a quiet spot or
loud...look up, look down...Just for a moment know that you can’t do life by
yourself anymore and just have a chat with the Lord, he is listening all the
time. Then as you place that final black colored piece into place you will
realize it was part of the tunnel behind you in the puzzle of your life.
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