The Making of A Pearl
One of the
sea’s creatures is the oyster. During an oyster’s life, a foreign substance of
some sort may get caught inside the creature’s shell and stay there for a long
period of time. This substance can be as small as a grain of sand, but when it
gets trapped, the unexplained happens. The oyster secrets a thin sheet of
substance called nacre that encloses the foreign object. Inside this thin
sheet, the foreign object begins to change and become reshaped until it is no
longer an insignificant grain of sand but a beautiful, shining, costly pearl.
The
ordinary has now become the extraordinary. Like that grain of sand, you and I
may be quite ordinary, but often God uses something painful and uninvited to
change us forever into something extraordinary and beautiful. Our task when
uncomfortable circumstances invade our lives is to wrap ourselves, in the Word
of God. It is filled with a substance that change us forever and make us into
the pearls that we were created to be. Priscilla
Shirer, A Jewel in His Crown;
Rediscovering
your value as a woman of excellence.
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