Oftentimes an egg is used as an illustration to describe the Trinity [God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit], three in one. The egg is a whole but it has three different parts, the shell, the white and the yoke. But, I wasn't thinking about the trinity this morning as I was cracking eggs...
The egg shell has to be cracked [or boiled if you want a boiled egg] to experience the fullness of the egg. Otherwise it is pointless. It will just sit there, unused and unable to fulfill it's potential. It has to be cracked in order for the goodness to come out. It has to be cracked in order to produce something of purpose. It has to be cracked to fulfill it's ultimate potential. An egg white and yoke neatly left in the uncracked egg shell will just go off and won't produce what it is meant to.
It's not until we are in the middle of a storm that we discover what is in the middle of us!
"These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world." (1 Peter 1:7 NLT)
So often in our own lives things happen, and it may feel like they are breaking us, but it's actually allowing the good things, the God flavours that are in our life, to come out. It strengthens our character and our faith.
Whatever challenge we are facing today, big or small, I pray that we would stand still, I pray that we would put our hope and confidence in our Creator, that we would know His hand upon our lives.
The bible says that "Greater is HE in you, than he who is in the world". If our lives [your spirit, soul, emotions, heart and body] are rooted firmly in His love, in His saving grace and in His redeeming power, there is NOTHING we cannot go through with Him. We are immovable. We will not be shaken. We may feel like the ground under our feet is slowly slipping away, but I promise, if we keep our eyes fixed on Jesus and not on our circumstance, He will bring us through, and bring us OUT stronger, wiser, happier, and more beautiful than before.
Take a deep breath and know that even when situations are not good. God remains good and His plans are always to prosper us and not to harm us. Let's allow Him to work in us as we go through the fire. And let's trust Him that He will bring us through, with greater experience, wisdom, grace, anointing and faith than we ever had before.
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