You are a RARE GEM

Dear Woman,

I woke up late cos my midnight prayer was extended a little hour longer all thanks to the Holy Spirit with a skip in my heart and a smile on my face as am reading all the warm comments here, I decided to share my weekend experience with y’all.

I had plans to coach two clients on their premarital journey. I’d been eagerly anticipating using the money to pay for my workshop and get a new microphone for my podcast. To my utter despair, I wake up to a big, mean migraine, the kind of migraine that bans a girl to bed with no hope of escape until the migraine decides it’s time to move along.

I ended up missing the client’s and most especially my plan for the money was ruined. I was so disappointed!

As I burrowed myself into my bed cover wondering what to share with you all, I remembered that I had once heard my mother compare the Christian life to a diamond.

For a diamond to become a beautiful, high-quality stone, it must go through an extremely intense process. It must endure extreme heat, pressure, mining, cutting, and polishing in order to sparkle.

A diamond must endure the “hardships” in order to come out on the other side looking brilliant. Without the difficult processes, there would be no diamond.

Each one of us is like a diamond in the rough. Unless we’re willing to endure the hard stuff, we will never fully develop into the beautiful gems that God created us to be.

I had the opportunity to rejoice through suffering, pray during the many hours I was in bed, cry out to God and ask for His comfort, and maintain a grateful attitude even though I was disappointed about missing two client’s cos of migraine.

I’m confident that if I had the opportunity to sit down face to face with each one of you, I would discover that you have your own hardship you’re experiencing. It could be a relationship challenge, financial issues, health problems, family conflict, or a million other things. We all experience pain, and we all suffer.

Instead of being caught off guard when pain or suffering strikes, I want to challenge you to view that hardship as a “diamond moment.” Instead of getting upset at God for allowing the trial in your life, choose to view it as an opportunity to chisel off some of your rough edges and become more like Christ.

We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation” (Rom. 5:3–4).

The next time you experience unavoidable pain or suffering, ask God to give you a diamond mindset. Pray that you will use that situation to grow closer to God, mature in your relationship with Him, and conform more to His image.

If you choose to cling to Him, thank Him, and praise Him through the fire, you will come out on the other side one step closer to being that beautiful diamond God created you to be.

FYI: I haven’t bought my microphone tho but I know there is nothing God cannot do.