While I was in the Dollar Store the other day I bought a 300 piece puzzle of beautiful hot-air balloons floating through the sky.  I opened the puzzle and sorted the pieces making sure to separate the border pieces from the inner pieces.

It was a little challenging to get the outside border pieces to stay put where they belonged.  However, I thought to myself that once I start working the inner pieces around the edge, the border would be a little more secure and not break apart so easily.  Not so!  Every time I attempted to attach another piece to the border, it quickly fell apart again.

Life is much like that puzzle.

To have a secure fitting puzzle you have to pay a bigger price, certainly, more than a dollar.

To have a life that is not falling apart, you have to give your whole life to God.  We can’t hold life together on our own working from the outside in.   We are powerless to maintain control of all those puzzle pieces of life.  God has already planned out every day, every minute of our lives – every piece of the puzzle of life has its own place and purpose.

So, there is no way around it, God is the only one who can keep all the puzzle pieces in order and stuck together.

Choose to let God be the center of your life.  He will work the puzzle of your life from the inside out.  He created you and He knows the plans He has for your life!  Trust Him with ALL the puzzle pieces of your life today!

Jeremiah 29:11  GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

¹¹ I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord. They are plans for peace and not disaster, plans to give you a future filled with hope.

Proverbs 3:5-6  New Living Translation (NLT)

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart;
do not depend on your own understanding.
⁶ Seek His will in all you do,
and He will show you which path to take.