Pebble Beach, on the California coast, has become quite famous for the beautiful pebbles found there. The raging white surf continually roars, thundering and pounding against the rocks on the shore. These stones are trapped in the arms of the merciless waves. They are tossed, rolled, rubbed together, and ground against the sharp edges of the cliffs. Both day and night, this process of grinding continues relentlessly...and what is the result?
Tourists from around the world flock there to collect the beautiful round stones. They display them in cabinets and use them to decorate their homes. Yet, a little further up the coast, just around the point of the cliff, is a quiet cove. Protected from the face of the ocean, sheltered from the storms, the sands are covered with an abundance of pebbles never sought by the travelers.
So, why have these stones been left ujntouched through all the years? Simply because they have escaped all the turmoil and the grinding of the waves. The quietness has left them as they have always been..rough, unpolished, and devoid of beauty....for polish is the result of difficulties.
Beloved, I am not in any way saying that all we can expect in life is trouble. That is far from the truth...but when trouble does come, God knows what niche we are to fill. Let us trust Him to shape us, to polish us, to do a work in us, so that we will shine..and illuminate the glory of God in the storms of our lives.
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