Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Charles...

Posted by Cham McCutchen at 11:44 AM

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. 

           ~ Charles Spurgeon 

I am beginning to realize....
     that it is pressure, time, and solitude that creates one of the most sought after gems of this world, the diamond. As you may know, diamonds, beautiful and expensive, started as a lump of coal. Over a course of time, immense pressure, and being separated from the outside elements (or world), a diamond is formed.
     I don't think we are any different. The quote above by Spurgeon reveals my suggestion. I believe God is constantly in the diamond making business. He takes the junk in our lives, the pressures, the solitude, and begins to form us for His display. The diamond making days/weeks/years are tough, but is necessary and allowed. It brings something so beautiful in our lives that when the Glory of God hits us, the radiance shines in so many directions and changes others around us.

"Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That's why we have the saying, "If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God." ~ 1Cor. 1:26-30 (msg)

 

1 Comment:

  1. Lil'Christ said...
    February 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM  
    Diamonds...Never thought of it all that way. You're right though. God wants to refine us into a better image of Himself. (I just realized that as I'm typing this iTunes is playing Daniel Brashta's "Potter's Wheel," and the lyric at the moment speaks of His reflection in us. Coincidence? I think not!)

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