2 Peter 1
My wife likes to put puzzles together. The thing that amazes me about doing a 500-piece puzzle is that there are no instructions. All you have is the picture on the cover of the box and all those little pieces that don’t seem to fit together. After that, you’re on your own.
Life is like putting together a 500-piece puzzle. In 2 Peter 1, Peter makes reference to the Transfiguration when God the Father spoke about His Son Jesus by saying:
"This is my son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased".
In the first chapter Peter presents our box cover.
"Make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love."
Putting a 500-piece puzzle together can have setbacks, struggles and adversity. When my wife put one together recently it was a constant battle to keep the cats from playing with the loose puzzle pieces or breaking apart the work she had already done. And when she got to the end there was one piece missing. She had to search the house high and low to find that final piece.
Reaching our goal of being like Jesus, of pleasing our Heavenly Father, of getting rid of our character defects and replacing them with His character is like putting a puzzle together. There are setbacks, struggles and adversity but we have the box top to show us what the end looks like.
As a believer, and follower of Jesus, we want to become more like Him so that on that day when we go before Him, He would say to us,
"Well done good and faithful servant".
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