Word of the Day
Like a well formed puzzle piece, I have designed and planned you to fit with Me perfectly. There is a niche in My heart you are meant to fit within—meant to connect to. You are an intricate and much needed part of the puzzle of eternity—the completion of the puzzle of the Kingdom. Have you ever seen a puzzle with one piece missing? Many aspects of the revealed picture are clear but the one missing piece keeps it from being complete and the eye is drawn toward the hole—the missing piece.
As a visible manifestation of My affections and love, you are a piece necessary to the completion and fulfillment of My heart, My Kingdom in the earth. No one else will ever be able to fill your place, your slot, so to speak. Imagine a heart puzzle filled with millions of pieces and one might think that one tiny piece might not be such a big deal. After all, how could one notice such a tiny piece in such a large sea of pieces? This would be an earthly way of looking at things, not a heavenly perspective. There is always collateral damage, if I can use that term without sounding hard.
If your piece is not in communion and relationship with Me there are other pieces that will not have the opportunity to be affected by the reflective beauty of our union. Therefore; it behooves Me to go to great lengths in order to bring about the revelation of My great love for you within the depths of your being—to set you free from any issues, factors, or misconceptions about who and what I have called you to be and do.
Therefore, I am smoothing out the edges to make you fit with ease into the niche prepared for you and you alone. Beloved, it is imperative that I set you completely free to love and be loved— to enable you to do without doing. All flows from this place of intimacy—Selah.
For just as the body is a unity and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so it is with Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). (1 Corinthians 12:12 Amplified)
For because of Him the whole body (the church, in all its various parts), closely joined and firmly knit together by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part [with power adapted to its need] is working properly [in all its functions], grows to full maturity, building itself up in love. (Ephesians 4:16 Amplified)
Prayer
Lord, like a piece of an intricate puzzle, I am made to fit with You in a precise and necessary way. You have made me to fill a vital place in the Kingdom. Many times I have not seen this and devalued who I am and who you called me to be. I have at times been gloomy or depressed about where my life is going or what affect it is having on those around me. Frankly, at times I have wondered if I really mattered. In doing this, my focus has been on me and not on beholding You and the truth of Your Word.
Please forgive me for being so self-introspective and losing sight and exchanging Your heavenly perspective for an earthly, natural one. Help me to see how important I am to those around me and let it motivate my heart to behold You with a heart of faith. Come and set me free to love and be loved. Draw me into intimacy hence unknown to me. Change every misconception about what and who You have called me to be. I draw into You and I am changed. Amen
Reflect and Journal
1. Have you looked at your life in any way and figured if your piece of the puzzle didn’t seem to fit it would be Ok because He would just use someone else?
2. Have you been viewing your life from a heavenly or earthly perspective? Take some time to write out your earthly perspective and then find His heavenly perspective in the Word. Reject the earthly perspective and embrace the heavenly one with words and deeds.
3. Take some time to be with Him…time to receive this great love which changes all things and makes them new. Ask Him to reveal to you what He wants you to see in order to facilitate a deeper level of intimacy with Him and write them down and do them until He says otherwise.