GLASS BEACH

GLASS BEACH

READ:  1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

“On the day when I act,” say the

LORD Almighty, “they will be my

treasured possession.” Malachi 3:17

Early 20th-century residents of Fort Bragg, California, disposed  of their trash by throwing it  over a cliff and onto a nearby beach.  Cans, bottles, tableware, and household garbage accumulated in huge, disgusting piles.  Even when residents stopped depositing trash on the beach, it remained an embarrassment - a dump seemingly beyond reclamation.

Over the years, however, wave action broke up the glass and pottery and washed the rubbish out to sea.  The pounding surf rolled and tumbled the glass fragments in the sand on the ocean floor, frosting and smoothing the surface and creating gem-like “sea glass,” which it then deposited back onto the beach.  The surf created a kaleidoscopic beauty at which visitors to Glass Beach now stare in wonder.

Perhaps  you feel as though your life  has become a dump-a mess beyond hope.  If so, you need to know that there is someone who loves you and waits to redeem and reclaim you.  Give Jesus your heart and ask Him to make you pure and clean.  He may tumble you a bit, ,and it may take time to smooth away the rough edges.  But He will never give up on you.  He will make you into one of His jewels!                                      DAVID ROPER

Lord, when we have nothing left but You, we are right where You want us.  You can use any situation for Your glory and our good.  You never give up on us.  Help us to relax in Your love.

God loves us too much to let us remain as we are.

INSIGHT

Paul wrote the letter of 1 Thessalonians to assure the believers that Jesus is indeed coming back, even though we don’t know when.  Everyone who believes in Him both the living and the dead-will meet Him in the air and be with Him forever.  After assuring us of this wonderful truth (see ch.4), Paul reminds us in today’s reading that while we eagerly wait for Christ’s return, God is working in us to prepare us to be in His presence.                                                   J.R. HUDBERG

Have a blessed night.

God Our Creator’s Love Always.

Unity & Peace