Are You Puzzled?

 

“You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,”

John 5:39

 

I have a friend who often posts pictures of the puzzles she has completed.

Sometimes she will also post the pictures on several boxes before she works on them and asks her FB friends to pick the one she should put together next.

Recently she completed one that had a single piece missing.

That would be too frustrating for me.

But speaking of puzzles suppose you were to pick and choose what you wanted in the Word of God?

How complete a picture do you suppose you would have if allowed to throw out portions you found offensive, hard to understand or unbelievable?

Before you know it you would have a very anemic book not at all resembling what it truly is.

Like the missing piece of my friends puzzle you would have an incomplete picture at best.

Since the primary method God uses to speak to us is His written word, the Bible, how difficult might it be to hear Him through your cobbled up chapters and verses?

Let me suggest that what you would hear might be something greatly distorted and unclear.

Of course it would be foolish to treat the Word of God that way.

It would  

Instead, reverence His Word and lovingly meditate on what is written in it.

Listen as you read, He loves to speak to you through it.

Are you puzzled by something in your life?

He will complete the picture for you as you listen quietly for His voice.