Colossians 2:2-4 (MSG)
"I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God’s great mystery. All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we’ve been shown the mystery!"
I messed up last week. I made some decisions and did some things that to me, were obviously right. But they started an avalanche that left me, and some whom I love, broken and confused at the bottom of life’s hill.
Rubic’s cubes overwhelm me. I know how to solve them. (I bought a book, once.) But when I see that colorful cacophony of squares, my stomach freezes. The logic behind the puzzle exercises my neurons… but the task seems to complex, tedious, and scary.
But I have a friend who loves to complete the puzzles. He sees the patterns differently than I do. And so when my Rubic’s puzzle on my desk gets messed up, I ask my friend for help.
I don’t know what to say to someone who is hurting. I don’t know what to do when all my choices seem poised to drop unintended consequences on everyone around me. When I do choose, the effects can be staggering. It often appears that I chose poorly.
Overwhelming.
But I serve a King who knows how to solve every puzzle. And He is kind as well as powerful. Understanding as well as wise. He weaves everything I don’t understand into a tapestry that HE understands, and that He assures me is absolutely, shockingly, inspiringly, and lovingly is exactly the tapestry that I needed on my wall.