After spending some time thinking about Sunday's message which spoke of stewardship of the "times" but a message in which I shared a dream that I had three or four times on Saturday night. A dream concerning myself working on a tile floor and as I prepared to set the tile I realised that no one had told me what size or shape the tiles were so I could not lay the grid pattern out ahead of time as all tile layers like to do. Then when the tile did finally arrive it was a pallet of broken shattered pieces. My first reaction was "what am I supposed to do with these?" then, just as quick, I knew exactly what to do and I began to take all the broken tiles and build them into a beautiful mosaic. The interpretation seemed clear enough; first; when we come to God it is our brokenness that He can work with best. That brokenness is the place where we know we need Him and without Him we can do nothing (nothing of lasting value anyway) it is in this state that He the master potter and planner can begin to fit us in to the beautiful mosaic of the Kingdom where we then begin to find our wholeness. Second; as a pastor we can sometimes think that if the Lord would just send us a whole pallet of nice square or rectangle tiles than we could really plan ahead because after all then we would know just what the finished product would look like. This however is not the case nor is it God's plan He has purposed that we should be in the position with tolls in hand ready to set the tiles (of course all tile work is done on your knees) and as he sends in the ones that He desires to be a part we imitate the Father and place them into His mosaic and plan. If you are one that is waiting to become a nice neat square tile before you turn yourself over to God or if you think He is waiting for you to become that then your wait is over!!!! I have good news for you... You will never make it on your own!!! How is that good news?? If you were trying to push a truck up a hill because it had to get there how relieved would you be if a team of twenty others showed up and said"we have been sent to help you get this truck up the hill" wouldn't you be relieved? wouldn't that be good news?? Well you don't have to worry about being perfect to come to God, the place He has for you in the plan is an opening shaped like you the way you really are, the more you try to make yourself something your not the longer it will be till you get placed in you spot in the mosaic. So come on put yourself in the hand of the master planner let Him place you in that spot so that you can be part of making the Kingdom beautiful, besides there is a vacant spot where you belong and the rest of us miss you.
Try to remember this thought: Perfection is an attitude of the heart, not a product of performance.
PG
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Carmen & I were down his mom's house last night for dinner. In one room of her house she has this tile floor. I've seen this floor thousands of times and never really noticed it like last night. As I was gazing at this floor I thought to myself..WOW! That's kind of what PG was saying about the body of Christ. The floor was like a mosaic, it had different shapes of tile to form a pattern just like a mosaic. I began to think how beautiful this floor is and how come I never noticed it before? Some tiles were brown, tan and white, some pieces of the tile were big and somewhat surrounded the smaller pieces and vice versa. I kept thinking how beautiful it was.....and then the Lord spoke to me and said that this is how He sees His body.
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We're all dependent on the strength we draw from one another, for we're (connected, knotted) by the love that comes from God our Father.