As I was going on my daily walk, I found a penny on the road, so I picked it up. The side facing up was fine, but after I picked it up and examined it, I noticed the back was in terrible condition. If I hadn’t seen the front, I never would have known it was a penny.
Then God starting using that penny to teach me some very important lessons to apply to my life. I will now try to explain them to the best of my ability.
So my first reaction when I examined the penny was “well I guess I won’t be using this penny, it’s so damaged that it’s useless.” Often times in life we consider ourselves as damaged and useless unto God. We let it hold us back from doing things God wants us to do. But we don’t have to live like that. If we let God work in us, he can take the damaged parts and fix them. So to prove this point, when I got home I went online to see the best way to clean a penny. I did so and watched as the Vinegar penetrated through the gunk on the penny and watched as Lincoln’s head became clearer and clearer. Then I realized that the vinegar represents God. He is our “vinegar.” We can chose to keep on living with our damaged parts, our broken hearts and souls and spirits, or we can hand them over to God, and let him wash the pains away. Allow Him to totally wipe you clean and restore you to your natural self. But in order to be made new again, you have to make the decision to go to Him, and allow Him to work in your life and to make you as good as new.
The second point is that just because something or someONE seems fine on the outside, does not mean there is nothing the matter with them. I did not realize the state that the penny was in until I picked it up and examined it to find the back of the penny marred. Just because someone seems put together on the outside, you never really know what is going on on the inside unless you dive deeper. So say a prayer for your friends and family. You may not know what is going on, but God does, and they may need the prayer after all. Just because they may seem they have it all together, does not mean it is so.
But the main point I got from this whole “Penny Experience” is that no matter what happens to it, a penny is still a penny. It still has the value of a penny. And the same goes for you. Just as the penny does not lose it’s value when it is scratched, neither do you lose any of your worth when you take a beating. Satan will send a lot of things your way to tear you down, and make you beat yourself up, but at the end of the day, you are still God’s creation. You are still a child of God and He still loves you the same today as He did yesterday, and still will tomorrow. He still sees you as His beautiful and precious creation. No matter what happens in your life, you will NEVER lose that value to God. There is nothing you can do that will diminish the value God has for you. No matter what mistakes you may make, He will always be there to pick you up, and dust you off, and make you good as new.
God bless,
Tiff
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