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October 3, 2024 10 mins

God can take your jigsaw puzzle and fix it.

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Speaker 5 (01:55):
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Speaker 2 (02:04):
Good morning everybody.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
You are listening to the voice, Come on, dig me
now one and only see Harvey got a radio show man.
God is in a blessing business. I'm in the receiving line, man.
That's a good feeling. I thank God for waking me
up in the mornings, I really really do. I thank

(02:26):
God for the spirit that he wakes me up with
because I finally, but I finally figured it out. Such
a blessing that shouldn't be taken for granted. The fact
that you are up today, the fact that you just
got off working, you driving home, the fact that you
got a job to come home from, the fact that
you got a job to wake up too.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Whatever it is, the fact that you can see.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
Think, here, smell, walk, talk, rhyme, reason, whatever it is,
it's a blessing.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Man.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
I was talking to a partner mine last night and
an analogy came to me last night of what my
life has been like just going over my story with
a friend of mine of all some of the things
I had gone through, and he never knew it because
he said, man, you never told me that we were
just talking. One of the things I remember, and it's

(03:18):
kind of equated to my life, was when I was
a little boy, as she goes to the store with
my mom and she would let me buy a jigsaw puzzle. Now,
for those of you, a jigsaw puzzle comes in a box.
There are no instructions. It just comes in a box

(03:40):
and it's simple. You're gonna dump the pieces out in
a pile and you're gonna try to put the pieces
together until it looks like the picture that's on the
cover of the box.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
That's as simple as it is. Here is the deal.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
I would select a jigsaw puzzle based on the picture
that I liked and if I thought I could do it. Now,
if the picture looked too crazy, if it looked too intricate,
I didn't want that puzzle, you know. And the thing was,

(04:23):
back in the day you got a jigsaw puzzle. You
had a hundred piece puzzles. Four hundred piece puzzles, man,
then they say a thousand piece puzzle.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
You go ooo.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
So those were a little difficult for me when I
was a little boy, so I didn't want that.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
As I got a little bit older, I.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Had more challenging puzzles, you know, four fifty five hundred
piece puzzles. But I always picked a picture of something
I liked. So it's very simple. You get the jigsaw puzzle,
you get it home, you open it up, you dump
it out on the table.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
You flip all the pieces over so you.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Can see them, and then I would try to sort
them based on the colors on the box. If it
was like a black section, I'd take all the black
pieces and slide them over there. If it was some flowers,
I'd try to find all the pictures with little jigsaw
pieces with the little floor, and I separate them and
then I start putting it together. And the way I

(05:24):
started was i'd try to build a border first, because
I knew all the straight edges had to be side
by side at one point. And it was funny, man,
because it's related to my life. I would start putting
the pieces together of the picture I saw that I liked,
and that would be my picture. A lot of people

(05:46):
didn't like jigsaw puzzles. As a matter of fact, none
of the boys on the street liked jigsaw puzzles but me,
because they just didn't want to go through the intricate
details of figuring that out.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Really go out outside and run or something like that.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
And so what happened was, as I got older, I
wanted more difficult and challenging puzzles, but I wouldn't go
too far. I wanted some nice stuff to happen. I
had a picture of what I wanted for my life,
but I didn't want to go too far because it
was so challenging and difficult. I couldn't see myself with

(06:24):
all of that, and I didn't have the time, the knowledge,
the expertise, the figuring all the intricate details. And I
discovered something when I was talking last night. That's what
happens in life to a lot of people. You get
bogged down with the details of coming up and trying
to create the picture that you want for yourself. You

(06:45):
put it to the side, You say, ah, that puzzles
are crazy. Next thing you know, you crumbled it up
and put it back in the box. So you go
halfway and you get stuck, and you get to the
part where it ain't a lot of different colors. It's
all the same, and that's a little bit more challenging.
So that may stop you. But it's somewhere in the
jigsaw puzzle that it gets very difficult and challenging. The

(07:06):
bigger the picture you want, but then what will happened
in your life. It's just like what happened in the jigsaw.
Once you get comfortable and you don't mind the challenge,
you could get a bigger picture. But here's the key
to it, though, if you put God in your mix. See,

(07:29):
the picture that I saw for myself as a boy
is not the picture that has happened to me as
a man. Because along the way from boyhood to manhood,
from the time I was telling you understand what happened
along the ride in there was I started putting God
in the mix. And so now the picture that I

(07:51):
have now is not the picture I saw. It's the
picture that God saw. So what I'm saying this analogy
is the picture you have may be difficult to complete,
but if you were to include God in your life.
Put God in your jigsaw puzzle. God will not only

(08:12):
help you complete the puzzle, and he gonna add some pieces,
he gonna do some favors, he gonna show some mercy,
and you gonna look up and the picture that you're
able to end up with will be totally different and
much more complete, much more beautiful, a bigger.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Picture than the one you had.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
Because there's no way that I could have saught the
life that I have today back when I was a boy.
And it amazes me when I hear people say I
always saw this for myself.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Ah, I didn't do that. I didn't quite see this
for myself.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
I don't know how you can have the ability to
see what God really has for you. But man, he's
a master for jigsaw. Man, he's an incredible puzzle completerer.
So if you got a puzzle that's challenging to you,
maybe you need to see what's the picture that God
has for your life. If God were in your life,

(09:05):
if you complete it to puzzle, what would it look like.
It'll be a far more extensive puzzle and it would
be a far more beautiful piece of scenery than you
could have ever imagined. Tears come in my eyes because
I can't believe God bought me this far. I can't
believe that when I opened up and accepted him and

(09:26):
started talking to him, that he would add all these
pieceles to my jigsaw puzzle, and my jigsaw puzzle would
look like this. And I can tell you I ain't
got a whole lot to do with with with what
OT have turned into. It's mostly favor and blessings and
grace and mercy of God. And I looked up and
I just got a much bigger jigsaw puzzle completed. And

(09:48):
guess what, He ain't through with me yet. That's what's
amazing and exciting about a relationship with God. God could
take your jigsaw puzzle and fix it.

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