Missing Piece.....

Have you ever spent hours constructing a masterpiece of a puzzle to find out that your missing the last piece? I thought about that today, our faith walk is alot like the piece of the puzzle thats missing. You see we think putting all the pieces of our life together to form this pretty completed puzzle is what we are called to do, but then we get to the end and find that we don't have the last piece. We become confused.....wait a minute, I quit swearing, I don't steal, cheat, drink, do drugs and I try my hardest to walk out my faith everyday.....now...where did I put that last piece? It's gotta be around here somewhere. I had all the pieces so neatly put away in the box. The box put neatly on the shelf and I always put it away as soon as I got done with it.

Ezekiel 34:4-5 "This is what the Soverign Lord says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do NOT take care of the flock. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. So they were scattered BECAUSE there was NO shepherd."

Perhaps.....that is why I can't find the last piece.....I've been looking in the wrong places. You see the missing piece isn't about us at all....its about them. It's about the lost..We as a body are incomplete without them.