Coffee Break - Rock Polishing

Coffee Break

"Rock Polishing"

Through everything that I have gone through, the Lord is using it to do a work in my inner man.  As I have said several times there is always more behind what you are going through than what you are going through.  Although He did not do this to me, as I have said He is bringing something good and eternal out of it. 

For my birthday my husband bought me a rock tumbling kit because I am fascinated by the transformation that takes place when a plain old dirty looking rock becomes a beautiful, colorful, polished, smooth stone.  The transformation is amazing.  It doesn't even look at all like what it started out being.  Who would have thought that such beauty was hidden inside something so unappealing.

That beautiful polished stone did not get that way without going through a process.  It was put in a tumbler to go around and around and around-- not for a few minutes but for days.  Inside the tumbler was also several other rocks and some course grit.  After many days it was taken out.  But that wasn't the end of the process. It was washed and dried and put back in the tumbler with the same rocks and finer grit to be tumbled again for another week.  Then it is taken out and washed.  Is that the end of it?  No, back into the tumbler to go around and around again, this time with a prepolisher.  The same process is repeated as before.  Lastly, it is put back in the tumbler with another polisher.  At the end of an appointed time, it is taken out of the tumbler, washed and there you have... finally... the finished product.  The whole process was intended to reshape the stone, smooth it and bring out its beauty.

When we go through some of the situations we go through, through them God is trying to make us into something beautiful for His glory.  Sadly, we live in a time when the gospel message we hear is one that says as a Christian you will never go through any hardship, heartache, suffering, affiliation, pain or tribulation.  This is not what the Bible teaches. Our Lord Jesus said we would have tribulation in this world.  So we do go through things.  But while the devil intends to destroy us through them, God never intends for those things to spiritually destroy us.  He intends for them to make us like beautiful polished living stones.

Like the rocks in the tumbler, we have to go through a process in order to be who God plans for us to be.  That process isn't always easy, comfortable or pleasant- and it doesn't happen overnight.  We can't become who we need to become and get to where we need to go in the Lord without adversity and friction.

Have a great day.  To be who God wants you to be so that you can do what He wants you to do, you have to go through a reshaping process.  It isn't always easy but in the end you will come out looking beautiful.