Remember 4

Psalm 4:6

Putting jigsaw puzzles together can be a lot of fun even if it is challenging. It is the challenge and the success – or overcoming the challenge – that brings about the satisfaction of completing the puzzle.

I suppose it is possible to put a puzzle together through trial and error with all of the pieces, but I have the most success when I keep the puzzle box lid near at hand. That way I can look at the picture on the box so I know what it is I am trying to build. The picture serves as a guide for me.

Our journey of faith can be like putting a puzzle together. The psalmist relates a question that many people might ask. What is the question? What request is made?

Like a jigsaw puzzle our faith can raise questions. We don’t always understand or see what it is we are supposed to be doing. We don’t always know if we are doing the right thing. Like the puzzles we assemble for fun, our faith also needs a guide, a completed picture to show us where we should go.

These guides can be found in other believers. People we know who are strong in their faith, those who seem secure in their relationship to God, can be an inspiration to us. They can set the example we need to know what it is we are trying to achieve. Through them we might see the face of God because they have lived out or reflected God’s holy purposes.

The observance of “All Saints Day” is an opportunity for us as believers to remember the good work and good examples of those believers who have gone on before us. We can look at the legacy of these lives of faith and see them as that completed picture, that goal we are trying to reach.

But as we remember those who have been examples to us, let us remember that we too should be examples to others. We should pattern our lives in such holy pursuit that our own lives might serve as guidance for others. Through us perhaps the light of the face of God might shine on others.

DAILY CHALLENGE: How can you shine the light of God on others?