YOU ARE NOT A JUNK

Myles Munroe my favorite author once shared a wonderful thought in one of his work that holds a great deal of life lesson. He said, “A sculptor works in a very interesting way, and it would be great foolishness to argue with an artist until he is finished. He said; don’t discuss anything with a painter or a sculptor until his work is completed. An artist can be very rude if you disturb him before he has accomplished what he intends to do, because he sees differently that those who are not artists.

An artist can walk by the stone in your front yard and see a figure in it. He may stop by your house and beg you for a stone you have walked past many times without noticing. The dogs may have been doing stuff on it. You may even have been planning to get rid of it because it’s a nuisance. But the artist walks into your yard and sees something beautiful in that stone beyond what you can imagine.

Two months later when the artist invites you to his workshop he says, “do you see that? Do you know where it came from?”

“England or France?” you ask.

“No,” says the artist. “It came from your yard.”

“Do you mean….?”

“Yes.”

“Five hundred dollars, please.”

You were sitting on five hundred dollars; the dogs were doing stuff on five hundred dollars. But you couldn’t see the potential in that rock.

What is the essence of this illustration? There are many people who are being passed because others don’t see what is in them. There is a great deal of wealth on the inside of you, something no other person possess but you. You are not a junk.

Insight like that of a sculptor is seen in the Bible too. When the world dumps and rejects you, and you land on the garbage heap of the world, God walks along and picks you up. He looks deep within you and sees a great worth.

Don’t ever let anybody throw you away, because you are not a JUNK. When God looks at you, he see what every other person cannot see. You are worth so much that Christ had to die just for you. Don’t accept the opinions of people who can’t see what’s inside of you. God looked at Adam, and he saw the world. He looked at Abraham and saw nations. In Jacob the deceiver he saw a messiah. In Moses the murderer, God saw a deliverer. God saw a king in a young shepherd boy. Same goes to you.

Addiction doesn’t make you a junk. You are still a valuable piece in the sight of your maker. Being a single parent doesn’t write you off the value list of God. Don’t let anyone write you off, because God has his hand on you. You are not a black sheep like your parents and friends say.  Even when the world would want Saul killed, God saw the book of Romans, 1^st and 2^nd Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Letter to timothy. 

My friend, you are just another book in the printing house of God, waiting to be published. And when God launches you out, the world would marvel…………………….. You are not a junk.

Stay positive, stay strong, and remain blessed.