ALL THE PIECES
Proverbs
23:26-27 My
son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. For a prostitute is
a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
A boy once said to God, “I’ve been
thinking, and I know what I want when I become a man.” He proceeded to give God
his list: to live in a big house with two German Shepherds and a garden…marry a
blue-eyed, tall, beautiful woman…have three sons – one who will be a senator,
one a scientist, and one a quarterback. He also wanted to be an adventurer who
climbed tall mountains…and to drive a red Porsche.
As it turned out, the boy hurt his
knee one day while playing football. He no longer could climb trees, much less
mountains. He married a beautiful and kind woman, who was short with brown
eyes. Because of his business, he lived in a city apartment, took cabs and rode
subways. He had four loving daughters, and they adopted a black puppy. One
daughter became a nurse, another a writer, the third a teacher and the fourth a
social worker.
One morning the man awoke and
remembered his boyhood dream. He became extremely depressed, so depressed that
he became very ill. Close to death from a broken heart, he called out to God,
“Remember when I was a boy and told You all the things I wanted? Why didn’t You
give me those things?”
“I could have,” said God, “but I
wanted to make you happy.”
Remember, God wants the best for
each of us. Trust Him with your whole heart – He’s the original heart surgeon.
God can heal a broken heart, but he has to have all the pieces.