Daily Devotional Wednesday 1-31-07

Gems

Haggai 2:8

“The silver is mine and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.”

Last summer I went with my grandchildren to a gem mine. You are equipped with a sifter and a bag of rock, sand and occasionally a gemstone. You dip your sifter into the trough of water and it washes away the sand revealing either rocks or gems.

We are God’s gems but we let things dim the glow of gold that God wants to see in us. Today let’s sift away the things in our lives that make us lose our value and give God our best.

LaCrecia McFaddin

Tennessee

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