So what are we? Coal or Diamond? Both are made of carbon and in time under pressure the carbon can become coal, that’s not too difficult. But under a lot more pressure and high temperature that same carbon can become diamond. It’s harder to find and takes a lot of careful grinding and polishing to get it to the brilliant stone that we know it can be.
We are born in the coal state, formed and fashioned as a standard human being. A coal man or woman. However, God wants us to be a brilliant diamond. Unfortunately some of us never quite become that. As we grow there are lots of influences around. Some are good and some are definitely not. We all know of a man who has ‘made it’ to the top or become famous in some way, and maybe we would like to be the same. But have they become a diamond or just got lost in their own little world. For most people life probably provides more problems than they would like, and most of us are not going to become rich and/or famous. I certainly don’t stand out in a crowd. But, as I’ve already said, God wants us to become a diamond. It’s not impossible.
So through life we are fashioned and shaped, tested and tried. As it was said in the film (I think) ’Carry on Sergeant’ “The easy way isn’t easy, and the hard way’s ruddy hard”.
It’s just as well that it is God who is testing us because we know that he will also guide and help us to overcome all our trials and tribulations, so that we can become diamonds.
Lord, some of us may only be coal at the moment, but we are ready to be put under pressure to become the diamonds you would like us to be.
Jim Finch
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