Gloves and God?
I recently red a blog about wearing dish gloves: http://www.fruitofherhands.com/2011/02/12/dish-gloves/ The author talked about her dry, chapped, and bleeding hands. About how wearing dish gloves and applying lotion has improved their condition. It reminded me of our lives and how God works in our lives.
When we try to live our lives with out God we become:
Dry
Chapped
Hardened
Calloused
Dirt gets stuck under our nails
Sometimes we are so broken we bleed
When we allow God to work in our lives. When we Pray. When we read the Bible. When we Worship. When we look to Him to be our protection and Balm we can withstand:
The hottest waters
The soap of coming clean from
The dirt and grime of life
We have a protective layer, a shield, between us and the particles of the world. We have the balm of His love, and word, to comfort and soothe us. Just as we put on our dish/garden gloves to protect our hands before performing these tasks, we should prepare ourselves for our daily lives by looking to Him to be our shield and our comfort.
Ephesians 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
2 Corinthians 1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.