The Niche

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

    I was walking down the hall at a place where I was working at the time a few years ago,  and passed one of our employees who had parked her cart in a little "niche" in the hallway.  She said that it was a good place to park it as it didn't block the hall and made plenty of space for people to get by.  It is always good to find a little "niche" in which to be.  The term came about as a place in a rock that was indented.  later on, it became used as a spot to place a statue or even an urn.  We soon began to use the term in a personal way when we stated, "It is good to find your niche."  In meant that we had found our spot in which we could fit in.  Almost everyone likes to feel as if they fit in where they are.  You remember those little block sets from your childhood where you had to fit a certain shape block in the identical shape spot  on the board.  Each block had its unique spot.  People are like that.  We like to feel as if we have our spot to fit in with society.  For most people, we eventually feel out of place.  We feel out of place until we find our niche with God.   Second Corinthians 5:17 says, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new"  It seems as if our being has a longing to have peace but we don't know how to get it.  We feel as if we are a square peg trying to fit in a round hole.  Then, there comes that day when we meet the Lord Jesus Christ.   I even have a niche here at the assisted living facility in Christiansburg. Jesus told Nicodemus that he needed to be born from above.  He needed to be born again and Nicodemus seemed to have a hard time understanding what Jesus was talking about.  Once we do become born "from above" however, we find that we are a new creation or a new creature.  Then, we know that we have found our "niche."  We fit in because we are a part of a spiritual building, the Body of Christ.  So, praise God today that you as a believer are a part of that body.  You have found your niche.