It's difficult, if not impossible to think like God thinks. But I admit I often wonder what goes through God's mind when one of his created beings, man to be specific, spurns Him.

I's almost inconceivable to imagine someone flushing one hundred million dollars in cash down the toilet. And it's beyond comprehension to imagine possessing all the diamonds in the world and then purposefully dropping them all into the ocean from an airplane doing a fly over. As incredible as these examples might be, don't they pale by comparison to someone rejecting salvation and the eternal life that comes with it?

If you're saved, you have the most precious treasure in the world. If you're lost, never having entered into a relationship with Jesus Christ, you can never have enough money or treasure to purchase eternal life. On the other hand, salvation can't really be equated to earthly treasure because those things burn up and salvation cannot.

But perhaps the most incredible fact about salvation is the fact that God is still perfecting His work in us. In fact, every experience in our life is like another caveat being shaped to reflect the most light. This prayer of David in Psalm 138 praises God for the way He worked through both success and failure to make him more godly.

If you're saved, you should be able to identify with David's testimony. After all, the most brilliant diamond is the one with the sharpest cut and placed in the brightest light. No matter how deep the scars in your life, God is able to make something beautiful out of it if you only allow Him to do so.

1 Developed from Read the Bible Thru ( Zp. 1:1-3:20 Rv. 10:1-11 Ps. 138:1-8 Pr. 30:11-14 )
2. Scripture comes from the Holy Bible, New International Version; (c)1978 by New York International Bible Society

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