Just A Little Stone

“You have searched me and you know me, Lord.” Psalm 139:1

The Father knows us inside and out. He knows us better than we know ourselves.

I am reminded of a Swiss theologian and Catholic priest, Hans Urs von Balthasar, whose thinking for me is quite difficult to comprehend, too complicated. But when God called him, God used very simple ideas, so easy to understand for you and for me. 

God said: “You have nothing to choose, you have been called. You will not serve, you will be taken into service. You have no plans to make, you are just a little stone in a mosaic which has long been ready.” All Hans needed to do was “leave everything and follow,” without making plans, without wishes or insights. All he needed to do was to stand there and wait and see what he would be needed for. . . . At that stage it was just a matter of surrendering himself. 

This is the part I love: “You are just a little stone in a mosaic which has long been ready.” Aren’t we all little, insignificant stones in God’s beautiful, wondrous mosaic? He knows our gifts and talents, our idiosyncrasies, our weaknesses, yet He wants to use us to create this divine masterpiece that He has a design for already! All we need to do is trust, surrender, and say yes!