Jeffcoat - Puzzle pieces for christ

Throughout this book Iwanted to show the individual struggles of being a person ofChrist. I wanted to allow you to understand that you may be goingthrough a time where you are not sure of the "whole religionthing", but maybe through reading this book you are able toacknowledge that you and I are all such important pieces to Hismighty puzzle. Though this book is written from my personalfeelings, I hope that you as the reader will be able to relate andthat this book can help you in your journey to The Lord. I hopethat we will begin to allow God to work in His mighty ways, andrealize that God will provide strength and comfort if we seek Hisname.

"And if onemember suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member ishonored, all the members rejoice with it. Now you are Christ'sbody, and individually members of it". (1 Corinthians 12: 26-27 NASB

Lord I pray thatthrough my words, that your message will be heard, that every wordI have written will touch someone in a special way only You can.Lord, allow our hearts to be open to hearing your Word and allow usto be receptive of those things You lay on our hearts. I thank youfor all the many blessings you have given all of us. And I pray forprotection over all who hear and believe in your Name. Let it beYour name we lift up when we face thedifficult times that are surely coming.Jesus it's in your nameonly that I pray these things. ~Amen

How am Iimportant? How do I know that I have a bigger purpose on Earth? Howwould little ole' me change anything in this big ole' world?

These are thequestions that face each and every one of us daily, our world hasstarted to convince us that we are not significant, it convinces usthat we are only just one person, What can we do?". Well I want to tell you that we are just one person, but we can bea person that has a purpose. We dont have to sit back and justwatch everyone else do significant things on earth. We can takeaction, but if we want to be successful and change something thenwe must go to God first and ask for His guidance because if we haveHis help then there is absolutely nothing that can stand inour way.

"What then shall we say to these things?

If God is for us, who is against us?(Romans 8: 31 NASB)

With Godsguidance in what we do, we are able to finally start putting Hispuzzle together. We are able to build His masterpiece because wehave allowed Him to step into the picture. If we dont allow God toguide us to where our puzzle piece is to fit in, then we will bethe pieces that are scattered on the floor and not in our rightspot. God will give us the security of fitting into our position,but if we try and fit in the picture the way we want to then ourpiece will never fit properly. Allow Him to place you where youneed to be, ask Him to put you in the right environment so that youwill fit in with others around you. God starts to assemble Hispuzzle when all of the pieces are ready to be placed. Think abouthow we try to organize our puzzles before we create them, in thesame way we put ours together, God assembles His.

When I am trying toassemble a puzzle I immediately look at the box to see the overallpicture that this puzzle should create when completed. God isholding on to the overall picture, He knows what is to come and Heknows how each piece is to fit into the puzzle. He represents thebox that is holding all the uniquely shaped pieces inside of it. Mynext step in creating my puzzle is to separate all of the pieces,making sure that I have all the edged pieces properly places so Ican start filling in all of the other ones. After I have assembledthe border correctly I start to place the center pieces inside. Butof course there is that one piece that you can never find ifyour life depended on it, and it just so happens to be the piecethat connects everything all together. That one piece coulddetermine if that puzzle gets finished or not.

What if we werethat puzzle piece that God has been searching for? If we were thepuzzle piece that was hidden under all of the other pieces or thepiece that was on the floor, and we connected so many otherstogether, would we still be insignificant? We maybe the edgepiece of the puzzle that holds everyone else inside it snug andwarm or we may be the smallest piece and the hardest piece tofind in the entire thousand piece puzzle. Without our smallpiece, that was so hard to find, that puzzle would havenever been finished. So how are we not important? OURPIECES ARE IMPORTANT! We just have to start believing that. We havea God that knows each of us by our names, He knows where our hiddenpuzzle piece is and no matter how significant or insignificant wethink we are, He knows our Heart. He knows if we are trying wholeheartedly or if we are just trying to get by with the minimaleffort. We have to make sure our heart is aligned by thetruth of Gods Word. We have to make sure we are putting our bestfoot forward and constantly striving to seek Gods Will ineverything we do. Because with God knowing my name and heart theremust be some significance about why I am here. So I dont want tolet Him down. He would not have created a puzzle if every piece ofit wasn't important or if it didnt have a purpose to serve. God isnot a God who creates things without a purpose! He has a purposefor us and no matter if we see it or not, He will always have anoverall purpose with our well-being in mind.

A puzzle pieceto me stands out when it the one that is the hardest to find, butwhen you find it, you can't help but rejoice and be happy. You knowthat now the puzzle can finally be finished and can show theoverall picture. God's puzzle can finally be completed because ourlittle piece connected it together. When we come out of thedarkness and become found in Gods Name then He rejoices withhappiness, because His kingdom is being filled with His children orHis puzzle is being completed with all of His pieces. So how canour world or anyone else ever tell us that we arent important?Because our Father has said differently.

He plans to useeach and every puzzle piece that He created in order to accomplishthe overall picture on the box. He made our piece, as rough as itmay be and as jagged as the edges are, He made our piece able toconnect to others. But we have to be able to hold tight to the onesthat connect to ours. We need to be able to have a strongconnection between them and ourselves, because if we dont then thepuzzle will slowly start to crumble and separate. And if we are theones that were responsible in letting the others fall off thetable, then how can we be a piece that fulfilled its purpose? Bestrong enough in your connection, to hold onto those around you.Because God will give you strength!

The Lord is mystrength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped;therefore my heart exults, and with my song I shall thank Him.(Ps. 28:7 NASB)