Crystal Egg
WORD PICTURE: CRYSTAL EGG
Scriptural References:
Zephaniah 3:17
The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing."
Song of Solomon 2:2
Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the maidens.
Psalm 81:10
I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt.
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
1. Have someone(s) read the scriptures from various translations.
2. Show a decorative crystal egg, either the real thing, an imitation, or a photo. In my case, I explain that my fragile, red, cut glass egg represents something very lovely. Inlaid with gold, it is precious and cherished by my family. You can adapt your explanation to suit your own example.
3. My sharing, offered to spark sharing by others.
What I Shared
Recently, I was told I had an auto-immune disease called MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, which means my own body’s cells were attacking my own body -- making holes in some pretty important places. So one day I’m out walking my dog, praying about all this, when I see a link between the holes in my body and the fact that I’ve been hard on myself all my life (a perfectionist, highly critical, very unforgiving, never thinking I did anything well enough). It seemed my body was just manifesting what I’d been doing to myself emotionally. Suddenly I’m remembering this EGG we have at home -- a beautiful red-glass EGG someone brought us from Russia, all inlaid with gold. So I say to God, “What’s with this egg?” And he says to me, “Tell me about this egg -- tell me how you feel about it.” So I tell him how valuable it is, how much we cherish it, that it is lovely, how we carefully unwrap it every Christmas. That it is precious to us. And he says, “That’s how I feel about you.”
Without knowing it, I had been throwing stones at His precious one -- ME! And when I saw that, it broke my heart. I realized how much it must hurt Him every time I speak badly of myself. And I repented -- right there in the middle of the field. At the end of it all, he said, “Just catch the stones before you throw them -- and bring them to Me.” Which is what I’ve been doing ever since.
That’s how God showed me that I am precious to Him. So, by the way, are YOU. Which is what I would like us to share about -- how we understand that about ourselves -- or not -- and how that translates into lifestyles and actions.
All Scripture references from the New International Version of the Bible (NIV).
Copyright by Whitney McKendree Moore, December 2006