PUZZLES - Part 2

I like to work puzzles.  I discovered that looking at the shapes of the pieces is not helpful, but studying the picture on a puzzle piece and how it visually compares with the picture on the puzzle box brings much quicker results.  Some people would call this “cheating”. Not in my rule book.

Have you ever watched a small boy emulate his father? Putting an oversized baseball mitt on his small hand? Slipping his little foot into dad’s slipper? Little girls love to wear mom’s high heeled shoes. Are they cheating? No! They are experimenting and learning, trying to figure out what it means to be a dad or a mom.

It reminds me of the scripture where Jesus says, “He [Jesus] does only what He sees the Father doing” (John 5:19).  Was Jesus cheating? Of course not! He had an intimate relationship with His father. Jesus and the Father are One and doing only what He saw the Father doing was an expression of that oneness and an act of profound respect, submission, and identification.

O that God the Father would give us a deeper revelation of our oneness with Him and His Son Jesus Christ!

“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me” (John 17:20-21).