Comments on: When Faith falls into Place like a Jigsaw, Piece by Piece https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/13/when-faith-falls-into-place-like-a-jigsaw-piece-by-piece/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/13/when-faith-falls-into-place-like-a-jigsaw-piece-by-piece/#comment-18263 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:49:05 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/13/when-faith-falls-into-place-like-a-jigsaw-piece-by-piece/#comment-18263 Lovely DJV! Yes, indeed the jigsaw puzzle of life gets sorted out and makes sense in Christ. It's an ongoing process for me, but a joyful one!

]]> By: djv https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/13/when-faith-falls-into-place-like-a-jigsaw-piece-by-piece/#comment-18262 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:36:58 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/13/when-faith-falls-into-place-like-a-jigsaw-piece-by-piece/#comment-18262 Hi Anita
It seems that we can know in part , that is what is achieved by searching in the same direction without Christ ; half truths become myths and legends but the heart still hungers for the complete story.
In Christ and with Him all the pieces of the puzzle become complete the whole picture is revealed in the truth of His Being; God incarnate;
Here is the purpose of God lived out through Jesus. John 4:4-26

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/13/when-faith-falls-into-place-like-a-jigsaw-piece-by-piece/#comment-18261 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:20:13 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/13/when-faith-falls-into-place-like-a-jigsaw-piece-by-piece/#comment-18261 Thanks, Pilgrim. I am afraid there is no real point to this piece. I was just sharing a little fragment of my journey.

Yes, “Ask and you shall sometimes receive” is truer to people's experience. On the other hand, “Do not ask, and you shall not receive is also true.” And if we received everything we asked for, what a mess we and our lives would be!!

In the end, I think Jesus is sublime and luminious, and it's worth doing what he tells us to, even if we aren't sure he's God. Then we find ourselves amazed by his wisdom and insight, and conclude he must be more than human.

At any rate, I think a life with Jesus in it, is sweeter and wiser whether we are convinced he is God or not.

I like this tale of Chuck Templeton, Billy Graham's more gifted preaching partner, and how he burst into tears, saying he missed Jesus at the end of his life. http://dreamingbeneaththespires.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/tale-of-two-evangelists-belief-in.html

Blessings, Anita

]]> By: pilgrim52 https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/13/when-faith-falls-into-place-like-a-jigsaw-piece-by-piece/#comment-18260 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:28:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/13/when-faith-falls-into-place-like-a-jigsaw-piece-by-piece/#comment-18260 Thanks so much for this. I converted to Jesus at age 23, fell out from the Protestants, made my way through the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches and now find myself agnostic and barely Christian any longer. I've tried to convince myself out of a faith that used to “work” as yours did; pray and it was sometimes answered, sometimes not and faith in all of it. I don't know where I fell away; college perhaps? But I do know that I've never quite given up on Jesus. Thank you for the C. S. Lewis quotes. It answers many questions I too had studying literature and myth at university. I'd like to get all that back.
Thanks again!

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