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Give It To God And Allow It To Become A Pearl

1 Peter 5:7

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

I have found that very often it is not the crises that happen in my life that wear me down, but it is the continual little irritations of life that do the damage, or what I perceive to be damage.

Maybe if we were to see those irritations of life as something more positive then we could really reap the benefits of those experiences in our lives. We can learn some good lessons about irritations from the humble but beautiful oyster.

There is a story I read about the oyster and it goes like this...

There once was an oyster whose story I tell,

Who found that sand had got under his shell;

Just one little grain, but it gave him much pain,

Now, did he berate the working of Fate,

Which had led him to such a deplorable state?

Did he curse out the government, call for an election?

No; as he lay on the shelf, he said to himself;

“If I cannot remove it, I’ll try to improve it.”

So as the years rolled by as the years always do,

And he came to his ultimate destiny -- stew.

And this small grain of sand which had bothered him so,

Was a beautiful pearl, all richly aglow.

Now this tale has a moral -- for isn’t it grand

What an oyster can do with a morsel of sand?

What couldn’t we do if we’d only begin

With all of the things that get under our skin?”

How does an irritating grain of sand become a pearl?

The oyster changed its attitude about this annoying grain of sand and made a choice to allow this irritation to grow into something positive in its life.... A beautiful and precious pearl.

We can do that, with the irritations in our lives.  We can allow them to annoy us and to fester into something unpleasant and drag us down and ultimately away from God, or we can make the choice to give it to God and allow Him to make it into a pearl in our lives...

We proberbly will not enjoy the irritation at the beginning, but as we allow God to work on it,  we will one day enjoy the positive results in our lives...

Those pearls that make our live so meaningful.

Whatever irritation we have, be it a broken heart or a feeling of loneliness, or pain, whatever it is, no matter how big or how small, we can give it to HIM.

Remember the story in the Bible about the boy that gave Jesus his five loaves and two fishes, the disciples said.... “What good is that to feed such a large crowd“...?   Look what Jesus did with that offering!

We underestimate our God so many times... Nothing is impossible to Him; He can take any negative thing in our lives and turn it into something beautiful.... Those irritations can become our precious pearls.

How often do we hold back thinking.... “What would God want with that problem, or that is not important enough for Him to be concerned about"....

However, we know that He is interested in every part of our lives, every irritation, wanting always to change that irritation into a pearl that will be something beautiful in our lives and will strengthen our walk with Him.

He will use whatever it is we offer to Him, He will use it for our good, and He will use it for His glory.

When we can learn to give all those things to Him, we also learn faith and trust in Him, it brings us to a place of truly recognising who He is....

And that blesses Him, and then we can offer that ‘blessing’ that pearl back to Him.

Blessings

Les