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\u201cGod\u2019s Grace\u2026 the Missing Peace!\u201d – 2 Corinthians 12:1-10<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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1. The Missing Piece<\/h4>\n

In the book The Missing Piece<\/u>, children’s author Shel Silverstein tells the story of a circle from which a large triangular wedge has been cut. The circle wanted to be whole with nothing missing, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll – actually bump – along only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with the worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It appreciated the butterflies. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll again. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast, in fact, to notice the flowers or to talk to the worms. When the circle realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its piece by the side of the road, and rolled slowly away, once more appreciating the world in which it lived.<\/p>\n

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2. Waiting for things<\/h4>\n

Aren\u2019t we sometimes like the circle with the missing piece? We somehow feel incomplete, discontent, looking for something to round out our lives – pun intended! What might that missing piece be in your life?<\/p>\n

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Maybe you look around at the friends you have in your life and everyone can play an instrument and is musical, while you have trouble playing music on your phone. If only you could pick up a guitar, or tinkle the ivories on the piano, or belt out a jazz tune on the saxophone. That would be the missing triangle piece of your life.<\/p>\n

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Maybe the missing piece that would really round out your summer would be the opportunity to travel. It\u2019s been a long time, right. You haven\u2019t been able to go anywhere, anytime. And it would just do your heart and your mind and your body good to be somewhere else, and not have much to do at all.<\/p>\n

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Or maybe the missing piece for you is that last course to complete your degree, to get those letters behind your name, and to use that as a springboard to success in the future. But covid derailed you, and now you lack motivation, and you don\u2019t want to do another online course. So, you just keep rolling along – bumping along really, like that circle with a wedge missing – but never picking up speed in life. You\u2019re working some shift work job just to make ends meet, or you\u2019re working in the food service industry, because you have to, but you\u2019re really waiting to get to that special job, that trade, that profession, something that really interests you, something that you would find satisfaction in\u2026 but it\u2019s the missing piece.<\/p>\n

Maybe your missing piece is that special someone to spend the rest of your life with. You\u2019ve tried the bar scene, you\u2019ve tried the online dating service thing, you avoid the blind dates your friends or family suggest, and you know that hook-ups are generally hook-downs. You want to find that person that you really connect with, that has the same priorities and ambitions and beliefs as you have. But that person has so far been elusive.<\/p>\n

And so, like the missing piece circle, you are just discontent with your lot in life. Or maybe discontent with your loot in life, and you really think that\u2026 if only I could win the lottery, even a little lottery, I wouldn\u2019t have to worry, I could do some of the things I\u2019ve been dreaming about, and I would be happy. That would be a BIG missing piece to fit into my life.<\/p>\n

To be discontent with your life is to be ungrateful to God. God has given you your life, your personality, your abilities and passions, your opportunities, your relationships and family. To be discontent is to snub your nose at God and say, \u201cThanks, but no thanks. I want more. I want different. I want better.\u201d So we discover that the apparent missing piece of our life contributes directly to the peace and contentment that is missing from our lives – the missing peace.<\/p>\n

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3. Paul\u2019s missing piece (missing peace)<\/h4>\n

Paul was one of those people with a missing piece, a discontent, and the subsequent missing peace. We heard his complaint in the Epistle reading. But before we get to that, let\u2019s remember who he was and what he had done.<\/p>\n

Paul mentioned boasting, and not boasting\u2026 except boasting of his weaknesses. When he wrote to the Christians in Philippi, he actually said that in his former life, he had reasons to boast with respect to his credentials as a Jew: he was circumcised on the 8th day, an Israelite of the tribe of Benjamin, a law-abiding and blameless Pharisee, one who persecuted the new sect that followed that Jesus guy.<\/p>\n

But that all changed when he met the risen Jesus in a vision on the road to Damascus. Thanks to a man named Ananias, Paul was instructed in the faith in Jesus, he was baptized, he was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he received his assignment to be God\u2019s chosen instrument to take the name of Jesus to Israelites, and also to Gentiles (non-Israelites).<\/p>\n

Paul mentioned boasting in 1 Corinthians 9, too. He talked about how he was flexible in his missionary approach, and how God used him in various circumstances to proclaim the Gospel and to be God\u2019s instrument to save people. He could use his freedom as a Roman citizen to talk to free men. He could be a servant to win slaves. He could use his Jewish identity to connect with Jews. He could point out his own weaknesses in order to relate to those who were weak. But in every one of those situations, his purpose was to be \u201call things to all people\u201d in order to have some of those people come to faith in Christ.<\/p>\n

And before we get to Paul\u2019s complaint, let\u2019s recall what he suffered as he tried to be \u201call things to all people.\u201d Paul lays out a long list of his sufferings – a list that he says he could boast about when others boast of their credentials. That list is found in 2 Corinthians 11 – just a few verses before what we heard today. I won\u2019t tell you everything, but he did experience 39 lashes five times, he was beaten, stoned, shipwrecked, he faced hunger and thirst, cold and sleepless nights, and a lot of other dangers, too.<\/p>\n

Now, you might imagine that those sufferings would be the basis of Paul\u2019s complaint to God in chapter 12\u2026 but they weren\u2019t. The basis for his complaint was a little pebble in his shoe. You know what I mean\u2026 if you have a little pebble in your shoe, under your foot, it can be aggravating and can give you a blister in just a few minutes of walking. You\u2019ve got to stop, take off your shoe, and shake out that little pebble before carrying on. Paul couldn\u2019t shake out that little pebble, so he prayed and asked, \u201cGod, if only you would take away that ailment, that \u2018thorn in my flesh,\u2019 that \u2018pebble in my shoe,\u2019 well, I\u2019d be able to serve you better, more completely, more effectively.\u201d We don\u2019t know what that \u201cthorn in the flesh\u201d was. Paul calls it \u201ca messenger of Satan\u201d with a purpose to harass or torment him. It may have been a physical, spiritual, or emotional affliction – or something else entirely. Since he was not talking of a literal thorn, he must have been speaking metaphorically. Some Bible scholars have interpreted the thorn to be temptation, or a chronic eye problem, or malaria, migraines, epilepsy, even a speech disability. Some say that the thorn was a person. Whatever it was, it was a source of real pain in the apostle\u2019s life. Whatever it was, Paul was convinced that if God would remove the \u201cthorn in the flesh\u201d from him, he would be a much more effective evangelist and missionary.<\/p>\n

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4. God\u2019s response: grace\u2026 the missing peace<\/h4>\n

When Paul persisted in asking God for healing – he says that he pleaded with God three times – God told him that he needed to rely on God\u2019s strength, not his own. God told Paul that grace was all he needed to provide the peace that was missing from his life. Grace is described as God\u2019s generous mercy toward undeserving people. For all his spiritual pride and oppression of those who followed Jesus, Paul was certainly a person undeserving of God\u2019s mercy. But of all the people we meet in the New Testament accounts, Paul seems to have understood God\u2019s grace very profoundly, and written about it very thoroughly. Listen to how Paul describes God\u2019s grace – for him, for us – in some of his letters:<\/p>\n

\u201cGod has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Christ, we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished on us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Christ Jesus you are all sons and daughters of God, through faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGod, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBy grace you have been saved through faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

Take those words personally: you are God\u2019s child; you are loved; you are forgiven; you are blessed; you are saved \u2013 all thanks to God\u2019s grace in our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

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5. Grace provides the missing peace<\/h4>\n

When your life seems to have a missing piece, hear and remember and take to heart God\u2019s words for Paul: \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n

If your missing piece is not being able to play an instrument, find peace and joy in listening to and appreciating the music that your friends and others play.<\/p>\n

If your missing piece has been and still is the absence of travel, take time – like the missing piece circle – to walk through life slowly and enjoy the beauties of God\u2019s creation where you are or where you can go\u2026 like a local hike and appreciating the trees and birds and flowers and worms and butterflies.<\/p>\n

If your missing piece has been that last little bit of education and the springboard to your dream job, pay attention to how God can use you right where you are, with the people that you rub shoulders with.<\/p>\n

If your missing piece is that special someone to spend life with, find meaning in your current relationships with friends and family, find time to care for people in need, and at the same time continue to develop and enrich your own character and personality so that if and when that special someone comes along you will be a really special someone for him or her.<\/p>\n

I mentioned Paul\u2019s boasting a couple of times. Here in this chapter, Paul boasts of his weaknesses. Let me tell you about one of my weaknesses:<\/p>\n

Last week, I told you about fainting the very first time I led a worship service. Well, about 7 or 8 years earlier, I was in Grade 10 but still kind of short, and scrawny, maybe just over 100 pounds. I was weight training with my teammates after school one day as part of our preparation for the wrestling season. I was doing the military press, lifting the bar and weights directly over my head. One minute I was lifting the bar, the next I was picking myself off the floor. I don\u2019t really remember what happened. I don\u2019t know if I lifted the bar too many times, or if there was too much weight. I don\u2019t remember exactly what happened\u2026 probably because I fainted. I think there was someone behind me – a spotter – maybe that\u2019s why I don\u2019t remember hurting myself. I do know that that day I left my mark on my high school – specifically on the wooden frame of the trophy case right behind where I was lifting the weights. I don\u2019t know if that little gash is still there, but if it is, I\u2019ll boast about it. I was trying to be strong, I was working to be strong, but I didn\u2019t take into account my weakness. My weakness, my \u201cthorn in the flesh\u201d is my tendency to faint when I\u2019m hot or when I exert myself. Don\u2019t worry\u2026 it hasn\u2019t happened for a long time now. Oh, I have been hot (last week), and I have exerted myself\u2026 but I haven\u2019t fainted.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a good reminder for me, for you. Know what your weakness is. Know what your \u201cthorn in the flesh\u201d is. Know what your missing piece is. Know how Satan tries to harass and tempt you. In Silverstein\u2019s book, the circle learned what God was also teaching St. Paul – that in some strange sense, we are more whole when we are missing something. We don\u2019t have to be perfect, we don\u2019t have to be complete and round in order for life to roll along. We do need to have God and God\u2019s grace – that will give us the missing peace that we are looking for.<\/p>\n

Count on God to work through your weakness to get His mission accomplished.\u00a0 Count on God to be your spotter, standing behind you when you faint in your weakness. God\u2019s grace is sufficient for you. God\u2019s grace is your missing peace, and contentment, and strength. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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