Hershey’s Miniatures
A look at this bag
and it might say, A Little something
for everyone.
Family Size.
And inside you will
find Milk Chocolate, Krackel, Mr. Goodbar, and Special Dark Chocolate
Some with a certain
type of chocolate, some with crisped rice, some with nuts.
All different but one
thing in common: Chocolate
Now compare that with
our life:
Men, Women, Mom, Dad,
Grandparents, Children, Grandchildren, Aunt, Uncle, Jobs that define us, color
of our skin, American, other nationalities, Christians and Non Christians and
many more
We all have labels
that tell who, what, or where
Really no different
than this bag of candy
One thing in common
with these labels is a God who Loves us.
Now this bag of candy
can tell us a story of labels.
Such as …..
Milk Chocolate can represent God’s
love for us. Very smooth no bumps or things blocking our way with love from Him.
We put those bumps and blocking items in the way of our love for Him.
Krackel : the things that
are small items we think we can get away with: White lies, gossip, hurtful
words, actions and so on.
Mr. Goodbar: the
things in life that make us feel good: Vacations, a certain show on TV, reading
a good book, doing nothing, spending money on things we don’t need.
Special Dark
Chocolate: Can have a bitter taste but has very good health benefits to us but
we don’t always go to it first: Prayer, Reading our Bible, Quite time, Church, Church
activities.
No matter what our
label is. God’s Love is Free to us All. He wants us to have a relationship with
Him. He wants us to take that bite of Special Dark Chocolate and not taste the bitterness;
He wants it to be smooth like Milk Chocolate. He didn’t promise our life would
be smooth sailing but he does promise us that our trials will have a Great
outcome.
1
Peter 1:4-7
4 and into an inheritance
that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you,5 who
through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation
that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you
greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief
in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that your faith—of
greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be
proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is
revealed.
God
still loves us through the Krackels and the Mr. Goodbars of life. All we have
to do is ask for forgiveness of these bumps. And through them all keep our eyes
on Him that his great works will shine through.
