I got my first Lego for Christmas and it changed me. It was the first gift that I have gotten that needed to really pay attention to and be present to enjoy fully. It was the first gift that I have gotten that came in pieces. 538 to be exact. And I had to follow the directions to create the goal. And I had to take it apart sometimes when I missed something. But I knew. I knew that I would have a lighthouse that lit up in the end.
And I wondered is that how God sees us?
He knows. He knows that we come in pieces and sometimes we look at them and think is this really going to make a lighthouse and a killer whale in the end? And we wonder...how is this going to work? How is this piece really going to help the end goal? But it does. And he knew all along.
He knew that every piece had a purpose and a place. He knew that sometimes we need to take things apart for them to get put back together the right way. And he is stinking patient. That is what struck me more than anything in building my Lego. It took me 4 hours! And I thought it was going to be a quick 20 minutes. But the good stuff doesn't get built in 20 minutes in our lives...it takes hours. Days, years, really. To create the stuff that we look at and say "wow that's so cool...that must have taken hours to build."
And God just looks at us and smiles and says, "yep, it did. And look at how all these pieces turned into this amazing life."
He knows and knew all along. That's the part that makes my heart happy everyday as our Lego pieces of life might look like they are just a pile of Legos. They so aren't. There is so much potential in those little pieces. Just wait and see.
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