Puzzles

     Have you ever felt overlooked or unimportant? Have you ever thought to yourself, "God doesn't need me. I have no talents that God could possibly ever use."? If you have, I want you to consider a puzzle piece.

     I am sure you are familiar with puzzles. A lot of the pieces have easily recognizable images on them, maybe an ear or a nose, a chimney or a sea gull. A lot of the other pieces, however, have basically nothing on them, they may only have grass, or sky, or water. If you only have one piece of a puzzle and all it has on it is blue sky, you will have no way of knowing what the whole picture is. You may even think, "This piece has nothing on it. I don't need it." If you put the puzzle together without that piece though, it will be obvious to all who see it that something is missing. That piece, you thought unimportant, is now vital. Without it, all you notice is its absence.

     Your part in God's plan may be like that puzzle piece. On the surface it may look unimportant, but without it you can't complete the puzzle. No person is unimportant to God. Your piece is the most important because it is the one that completes the picture.