Rocks continued...

             As I have mentioned in an earlier post, I have a rock ministry.  Consequently, whenever I take off walking down our country road, I keep alert for more rocks to gather.

            One evening as I was strolling with the Spirit and picking up rocks, I examined one and threw it away. I heard the Spirit’s voice ask me why I had thrown it away.  Hmm…because it was broken and rough around the edges, not smooth and slick.

            “Pick it up,” I heard the gentle command.

            Fortunately, I had dropped it a short distance away and found it almost immediately. When I returned home with my sweatshirt pockets full of rocks, I began washing them off one by one. When I came across the broken one, I couldn’t help but smile as this rock now looked clean and showed character after its bath!

            Then, I had a thought or two.  Don’t we do the same thing with people? Don’t we often ignore those who are different from us?  Who might be broken and rough around the edges?  Who might ruin our reputation if seen with them?

            What if we were to befriend them instead? What if we would mend their brokenness and bring back their smiles?  What if we would do for them what Jesus did for us?  Because before we knew Jesus as our personal Savior, we were like those broken rocks: dirty, rough, tossed away or thrown down. BUT through Jesus’ sacrificial death upon the cross, we were washed clean by His blood and made whole. Jesus picked us up, gave us a bath and made us shine!!

“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”  I John 1:7