... Just like an Onion.
So yesterday at Harbor Light (the homeless ministry) I got the wonderful duty of peeling onions. There were boxes and boxes of onions that were donated... er - discarded, for Harbor Light to use. They were gross. Dirty and moldy. At one point I grabbed one and my thumb went through it... gross. Then I did what any Youth and Family ministry graduate does - I made a spiritual application.
Those onions that were moldy, dirty, and 'unfit' for use, just needed to be peeled deeper. We would cut the top and bottom off and then peel the layers back... low and behold there was a very usable part of every one of those onions. In fact, they were perfect. No one else wanted them, they were discarded and given to the homeless to use... but they just needed to be cut and peeled. See where I'm going with this one? How many times do we find ourselves covered in the dirt and mold of our sin. No one wants us.
But God chooses us. He cuts us. Peels us. He finds the good part and uses us.
This week has been amazing and it's only Tuesday. God has taken me and cut and peeled me. He has used me so much more than I thought I could be used.
Have you let God cut and peel you lately?
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