Connecting the Dots

So I'm at Church of Rock last night and we've been talking about Faith for the past year. Lorrie, the youth director at our church has been doing a really good series out of Hebrews 11 - you know the Hall of Faith. Anyway, last night we've finally gotten to Moses. That murdering, stuttering, prideful, disobediant, not really Charelton Heston guy that eventually led the Israelites out of Egypt, but he's still "really cool" to quote Lorrie, which is true. Last night we just looked at the first part of his life, which is in Exodus, the first 2 chapters. And the biggest thing that I got out of it was this illustration she had about what faith is like.

She talked about it like a connect the dots puzzle. Not one of the simple ones for kids, where it's a little shaded in, and you can sort of make it out before you even start, but one of the really intricate ones, that you don't know what it is until you're almost done. You just go on following the numbers, drawing the lines as best you can from point to point, but never quite knowing how you fit in. God knows what the whole picture is, but you don't know where you are in it. Prince of Egypt, that great animated movie, had a similar spin on it, from the song Through Heaven's Eyes where Jethro, the high priest of Midian tells Moses that as one small thread in the tapestry of life, you don't know where you are in the big picture, but you're there, and when you follow the right path, it makes the whole thing beautiful.

I'm just rambling now, so I'll stop..maybe you'll get something out of this.

Blessings.