Most all my life, I’ve totally been driven to, so to speak, find all the needles in a haystack. Being detail orientated, owning a never to be defeated personality, possessing inner energy that seldom tires and convinced the impossible is attainable, all led me to the art of thinking all needles in my haystack had to be physically located by me. That was until lately.
My hands finding all the needles in my haystacks, basically, is a chore of fact. Trusting the needles in my haystacks to God’s hands is an act of Faith. The former bets on my work. The latter banks on God’s power. Furthermore, it must be noted that God’s need is not to establish me as the source of my accomplishments but, rather, Himself as the fulfilling source for all my endeavors. Yes, to a degree, doing God’s purpose for my life is His commissioning me, when needed, to search, far and wide, to find His children and bring them the reality of His love; but only God has the ability to set my sights and course on whom He designates me to search for and find. In the vast majority of occurrences, God leads His children to each other, over any of us, solely, searching and finding a hidden soul.
This thought process has led me to understand that not my finding all needles in a haystack but God directing me to all haystack needles is a true analogy of a Christian “finding a needle in a haystack”.
A freeing of mind, heart and soul grows from no longer holding the task of needing to find all needles in a haystack. For an individual, finding every needle is a physical challenge measuring skill. Not being caught up in finding all there is to be found by personal skill blesses one to possess Faith that what is not discovered by man’s hands is securely known and held in God’s all powerful and knowing Hands. It’s sort of a parallel in meaning to “Let Go and Let God”.
Realizing this post is very abstract thinking, my hope is that you ponder haystacks and see only God’s Palms, not your hands, fully able to unearth all the needles who appear lost or strayed. Next, humbly thank God that our inabilities pale in comparison to His abilities; that while our eyes, at times, overlook the obvious, His vision penetrates even the darkest of hiding places and what we cannot find, He refuses to render as lost. Finally, take a serenity filled breath, knowing God does not command, pressure or expect us to find every needle in a haystack. Instead, His hands will place the needles into ours.
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 