GOD IS PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER
"Our light affliction...is working for us." 2Co 4:17 NKJV
Without God’s Word, most of our experiences in life make no sense whatsoever. With it, we can decipher our experiences. Few things are more comforting or more exhilarating than knowing that God is the One putting together the jigsaw puzzle of your life. It was a London cartographer, John Spilsbuw, who is credited with commercializing jigsaw puzzles around 1760. During the Great Depression, they were popularized in America as a cheap form of entertainment. Puzzles come in all shapes and sizes, including the latest and greatest—3D spherical jigsaws. But the method of assembly has not changed. It requires the
fitting together of oddly shaped, interlocking pieces. The key is the picture on top of the box. 
Without it, you're lost And that's why many of us feel helpless and hopeless at times—because the pieces of our lives don't seem to fit together, and we can't see God's vision for the whole. Few have suffered more than the apostle Paul, yet he wrote: "Therefore we do not lose heart Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and 
eternal weight of glow, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2Co 4:16-18 NKJV). Yes, bad things do happen to good people. But God has promised to recycle it, redeem it, and use it for our good and His glory.
This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word For You Today
Without God’s Word, most of our experiences in life make no sense whatsoever. With it, we can decipher our experiences. Few things are more comforting or more exhilarating than knowing that God is the One putting together the jigsaw puzzle of your life. It was a London cartographer, John Spilsbuw, who is credited with commercializing jigsaw puzzles around 1760. During the Great Depression, they were popularized in America as a cheap form of entertainment. Puzzles come in all shapes and sizes, including the latest and greatest—3D spherical jigsaws. But the method of assembly has not changed. It requires the
fitting together of oddly shaped, interlocking pieces. The key is the picture on top of the box. Without it, you're lost And that's why many of us feel helpless and hopeless at times—because the pieces of our lives don't seem to fit together, and we can't see God's vision for the whole. Few have suffered more than the apostle Paul, yet he wrote: "Therefore we do not lose heart Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glow, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2Co 4:16-18 NKJV). Yes, bad things do happen to good people. But God has promised to recycle it, redeem it, and use it for our good and His glory.This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word For You Today
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