“Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ” (1 Corinthians 12:12).
Jigsaw puzzles are a great table game that consists of putting small pieces together to form a picture. When John Spilsbury, a map expert, cut along the border of each country for his students to recreate the map by placing the pieces correctly, he invented a teaching tool for geography that was used for many years.
The first jigsaw puzzles were made of wood and were cut by hand. They didn’t come with a handy reference picture the way they do now, so the brave souls who set about putting the puzzle together had to rely on the title and a good imagination to figure out where the pieces should go.
In the twentieth century, irregular edges, false corner pieces, and other ways of challenging the puzzle lovers were introduced.
I don ‘t know whether you like to put puzzles together, whether you enjoy games with this sort of challenges, or whether you have the patience needed to put a jigsaw puzzle together.
The biggest puzzle on record has 1,141,800 pieces and measures 60′ by 90’. Fifteen thousand people worked to put it together. It was actually made up of smaller puzzles with different landscapes, animals, and maps, which were finally all brought together and assembled in the town square in Ravensburg, Germany.
You and I are part of an enormous puzzle. There are so many pieces to it that you might think you are insignificant. You might look a lot like other pieces, and sometimes it might be hard to know exactly where you should be. But God made you unique, and you have an important place in the final picture. Even though all the other pieces are there, if you are missing the picture won’t be complete.
“As all the different members of the human system unite to form the entire body, and each performs its office in obedience to the intelligence that governs the whole, so the members of the church of Christ should be united in one symmetrical body, subject to the sanctified intelligence of the whole.” (Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4, p. 16)
Maybe you feel more comfortable around some of the «pieces, and you will certainly fit in better in some places than in others, but know that you are part of a bigger picture, and help those around you to fit in, too.
We don’t know exactly what heaven will be like, but we know that we were made in the image of God, and He will help us find our place in the beautiful scene He is planning.
