A man, learning to pan for gold in the Scottish borders,
reached into a stream and pulled out a rather boring looking rock. He was about
to throw it back in but then thought better of it and asked his teacher if it
were anything special.
It was a gold nugget worth around £10,000. Hidden within some red mineral encasement. It
took the trained eye of an expert to recognise it for what it was.
Every day we meet new people. Some we are tempted to
dismiss, to discard them from our lives because we fail to recognise the gold
hidden deep inside.
Every day we meet up with friends, acquaintances and even
family, and can often be quick to note the dirt but slow to mention the gold.
Shame on us.
I’ve heard Godly prophecy described as the act of ‘calling
out the gold’ in an individual. Christians are meant to be encouragers. We are
meant to look at the ordinary and discern the extraordinary. We are meant to
live close to our living Lord so that he can open our eyes to see the beauty in
everyone we meet.
A prophetic word should lift someone up and help them to see
themselves as God sees them. It should motivate others to go for it, to stretch
that little bit higher, run that little bit faster, bend that little bit lower,
to achieve great things for Jesus.
I’d love to live in a matrix of encouragement, where the
Christian community sought to perceive only that of intrinsic worth in one
another and never, ever, tried to pull someone down. With the help of the Holy
Spirit, I want to live each day seeking to see the gold in others. Don’t you?
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