Have you ever done a 500-piece puzzle? My mother-in-law used to do them all the time. She would leave the card table up in the family room all winter doing puzzles. My girls used to love doing puzzles with her. Once in a while though, kids would be crawling around and bump the table and some of the puzzle would fall off or come apart. It took a lot of time to put a puzzle together but only a few seconds to have it fall apart.
Sometimes in life it seems that we work so hard and then one event, one decision, one situation can seem to make all the hard work fall apart. It seems like our world is crumbling around us.
But that may be God’s way of fixing something that we didn’t know was broken. Casting Crowns has a song titled Just Be Held. One line in the lyrics says, “Your world’s not falling apart; it’s falling into place.”
The next time it seems your world is falling apart, ask God to show you how He is really just shaking everything up and allowing things to actually fall into place.
This is so true. Thanks for the reminder, Deanna!