A Diamond’s Best Friend

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Greetings & Blessings Faithful Followers of Team MissionAccess!  Ponder with me this month the concept of Legacy.  How shall we honor not just the Milestones on our Christian journey but more significantly the Process we go through to prayerfully become transformed into the image of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ?

So let’s talk Diamonds, shall we?

I’m not talking literal diamonds though they certainly are precious. I believe our Lord is interested in creating diamonds of a far greater value.  In fact I never cease to be amazed by how Our Awesome Lord allows suffering to produce Spiritual Diamonds out of us.

Our Scripture passage focuses not so much on the Product but on Process:

Psalms 66:10-22 NASB

“For You have tried us, O God;

You have refined us as silver is refined.

11 You brought us into the net;

You laid an oppressive burden upon our loins.

12 You made men ride over our heads;

We went through fire and through water,

Yet You brought us out into a place of abundance.”

 Question:  Who is “You”?  And what is He doing?  More importantly who is *NOT* doing it? 

 Ah!  But Look closely:  WHY is He doing it?

Oh Precious Peeps!  (Insert Heavy Sigh Here)  So much of our focus remains fixed on the “What” we’re going through.  And rightfully so because we are urged to “Pray Without Ceasing” (1 Thess 5:17 NASB) for others as well as ourselves.  But the Power lies not in the What but in the “WHY”:  “YET You brought us into a place of abundance!”  Amen & Hallelujah!

Speaking of Diamond’s Best Friend…it’s God!  So why not get to know Him better?  Here’s a suggestion:  try simply spending more time with Him focused on the Why with a Daily Devotional.  Joni Eareckson Tada’s powerful classic Study entitled “Diamonds In The Dust” I Highly Recommend!

In His Accessible Grace,

Linda