Searching for God in the midst of doubt and confusion
God’s Plan to build a kingdom began with a puzzle made up of human beings
Think of a vast array of people with each connected to another person who also is attached to someone else. Some are colored like the sky while the next person has a hue of sparkling gold angelic hands holding onto a weak person with many disabilities. The picture goes on with one who laughs making us happy, and yet the next one we see is mourning the loss of a loved one.
Into the life of each there is a story to tell the rest of us and there will always be those who will ask for proof of the Creator that made all of us with so many mysteries to share with all who will listen Why a puzzle many will ponder and then look and view the many hands, holding the sadness or joy of someone they know or a stranger that yearns for truth that always eluded them.
The distance from one person to the next is an ominous opening that is covered with goodness on one side and some not so good on the next side. Why would this graphic of differences exist between two persons who may need to grapple with unknown results? The answer is when we touch other people with love or hate there will always be a solution for good or bad that requires us to save that person or discard them declaring our own loss of spiritual goodness.
One day into the future of eternity which has no past to how any of us solved a need for love or refused to lift up a fallen human being. God wants his puzzle made of many pieces of humanity and like a regular picture puzzle each piece must be designed to fit perfectly. If our challenge during the growth of life has a flaw or two like an uneven carving that becomes a misfit to not settle correctly in the assigned portion of this puzzle, we may be replaced by someone else and our useless failure of making the picture a perfect fit will leave us in hell since only those who show concern for others will make or break our place with God.
As the last few articles I sent describe the tenuous existence of a world gone mad and the very manner that has resulted in shootings and the saddest period in our culture that has become the very essence of a world without God and a laughing symposium of the Cross which is the only Salvation we have left.
This puzzle exists, but is made up of more replacements since there are fewer souls that had an opportunity to share with Christ what he came to this planet for those who are sick and came the the Temple of Hope.
‘Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you. When John came to you in the way of righteousness, you did not believe him; but tax collectors and prostitutes did. Yet even when you saw that, you did not later change your minds and believe him.” (Mt 21: 31 b - 32).
Puzzle pieces that may not have been assigned at first may just need to be replaced. This is just what Charlie Kirk was speaking about when he was shot. What will we also speak about to fit the puzzle of Almighty God?
Ralph B. Hathaway