This picture is without beauty, eternal beauty, if you do not accept my love.  This is how I can say that we can put this picture puzzle together.”

“I know that this is what I want for my life.  Though I feel weak and insignificant, completely incapable of attaining for my life this beautiful picture you have given me,” the man said.  “I am confident that with your love all things are possible.”

“I want this picture to be my life.  I want my life to be an offering to you, one of love and great beauty.  Help me to accomplish this with my life,” the man said.

“My part is already done,” said God.  “You only need to accept my Son into your life each and every day.  No one day is less significant that another.  I promise you, that I will love you with my utmost each and every day.”

With that, the man went about putting together that picture puzzle until it was complete.

The man paused to consider the implications of God’s faith in him.  He thought, “How could it be that the maker of the universe would place Himself in a position to need me?  Was this a mistake?  I just don’t understand how it could be a part of an intentional plan.”

God, reading the man’s mind, spoke, “Do you doubt my love for you?  Don’t you remember the words of my Son?”

Love was the word that got the man’s attention.  “No, I do not doubt your love for me.  Your Son confirmed that when He said that you loved the world so much that you gave Him as our sacrifice, so that we could be saved from our sins, and receive eternal life.”

“What does eternal life mean to you,” God asked the man.

Without thinking much the man replied, “Eternal life means never having to die.  That our soul lives on after this body dies.”

“Technically you are correct,” said God as His eyebrows raised.  Leaning towards the man He continued.  “But it means something so much more.  Eternal life means that you will be with me in my heaven forever.  It means that we can have unbroken relationship with one another, with nothing hindering or coming between us for all of eternity.”

This startled the man.  “You would want to be with me for all of eternity?  But why?  Who am I that you would want that?”

“This surprises you because you are not aware of the depth of the love I have for you,” said God.  Placing His right arm around the man’s shoulder and pointing with His left forefinger, God continued.  “This picture of your life contains the beauty of the love I have for you.  It is a pure love that is never ending.  It is a love that is patient, kind, gentle, not self-seeking, the kind of love that your heart desires most of all.

The Puzzle Box – Final Continuance

by Pastor David Bassett

by Pastor Dave Bassett

March 2008 — Issue #2

Special points of interest:

· The Puzzle Box – Final Continuance
  by Pastor Dave Bassett

· Communication With God
   by Judy Bassett

· God Has A Plan For Your Work…
   by Pastor Dave Bassett

· God Sent Us A Savior
   by Judy Bassett