Life is a puzzle. It may be an easy 4-piece puzzle for you right now and you can easily assemble your daily life without much outside help. But eventually it will grow both in number and complexity. Can you image yourself sitting with a pile of tiny puzzle pieces, say, 10000 of them, without a clue what the finished puzzle would look like? Many people gave up and exited this world with their life puzzle unsolved. The Holy Bible is the only guide that shows us both the final picture and step-by-step instructions for solving our life puzzle.
If you feel bored by your Bible, you're not alone. Yet that boredom does not come from the knowledge, but ignorance about the Bible. If you know what treasure hidden there, you would search the Bible more diligently despite the apparent boring feeling. Imagine you are told to walk around a nature trail EVERY DAY. How boring to repeat it day after day. Imagine again that there are three treasure boxes (with IPhone 10 inside) hidden somewhere along the trail. If that is true, you'd glad to walk around without compelling, day after day, until you found them all! (Just see how many people are drawn out to the trail by the virtual Pokemon Go game. Comparing to daily walk in the Bible, that is truly a waste of time.)
What does Bible tell us about our life puzzle? How do you know you've solved the big puzzle of life? In the very FIRST verse of the Bible, it mentions that God created heavens and earth. So your first step in sorting all these out, is to find God first. The Bible will tell you how to figure this out in your life. If you missed this entry point, there is no hope left. The very LAST verse of the Bible is a benediction, “The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all." So what is the sign that you finally solved the puzzle? That is, you've found the grace of the Lord Jesus. May you finally be able to assemble your life puzzle together, and find it a unique manifestation of the grace of the Lord Jesus in YOUR life!
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