Connect the Dots
There were numbered, random dots all over the page. They had no
form and no substance and they made no sense. They were just scattered dots on a
blank page and they had to be connected to reveal the picture hidden in them.
I can remember bending all my energy and patience into joining the dots to make
a picture. I had no idea why this dot had to be joined to that dot or why this
line had to go this way and then veer off in a strange direction to the next
dot.
But when all the lines were drawn, the secret of the dots was revealed as a
beautiful house. I kept the picture for many years because it reminded me that
great plans are sometimes hidden from our view.
If your life sometimes feels like a page of unconnected dots, remember the Lord
does not show us the whole picture all at once. He said “I alone know my
purpose for you”, Jeremiah 29:11. It's His secret and the secret lies hidden
in the dots. His picture is ‘as high as the heavens are high above the earth,
his ways high above ours, and his thoughts above our thoughts’ (Isaiah
55:8,9.)
It is a big picture. Paul found it. When he connected the dots of his life he
found the picture that was hidden in them. He said it was God’s purpose was
"to reveal his Son in and through me." (Galatians 1:16.)
Keep that picture in mind when the dots seem senseless and unconnected because
God never loses sight of the picture he has hidden in you.
Elizabeth Price