I was sitting at the dining room table enjoying my Buffalo Bleu chips for lunch, while just outside a little hummingbird was at the feeder enjoying its lunch … when suddenly the sun came out from behind the grey clouds and blinded the world with its brilliance!!
Immediately my eye was caught by a shimmering, dancing, blue sparkle, way far away across the yard … it was a tiny little raindrop, high up on a branch in a tree at the edge of the ravine.
I sat there in awe, captivated by the beautiful blue shimmering sparkle!!
For only a brief moment the blue sparkle shimmered and danced, catching flashes of other colors … then … the sun disappeared behind the grey clouds … and the brilliant blue sparkle was gone! All the world was once again a sullen grey color.
I sat frozen in place … still in awe! That brilliant blue sparkle was amazing!
It was just a tiny little raindrop.
It was way far away … and it was way high up.
But it was so beautiful! … the way it sparkled with such brilliant color was amazing!
My immediate “blink” reaction was: That right there is what it is like to be a Christian. We are just tiny little raindrops. Nothing much really. Nothing special really. Here … there … on normal ordinary branches.
And then the brilliance of Jesus shines out from behind the grey clouds of life, and the light of Jesus catches our “raindrop” … and our lives “sparkle” with Jesus’s radiance!
We don’t even realize it. We’re just a normal ordinary “raindrop”, hanging from a normal ordinary branch, on any normal ordinary day.
We have no idea that someone … someone far away … someone going about their normal everyday business … someone’s attention is suddenly caught by the brilliant “sparkle” of Jesus shining through our lives!
We have no idea. We’re just doing what God made us to do … we’re just a “raindrop” hanging from a normal ordinary branch, on any normal ordinary day.
But someone just saw the brilliant amazing “sparkle” of Jesus! The beautiful light and radiance of Jesus left them filled with wonder … and in awe!
If you are a Christian, then you are a “raindrop” … and the brilliant light of Jesus is shining through your life in a beautiful, amazing way!
You may not feel it … you may not notice it … but someone, somewhere is watching your shimmering sparkle, from far away.
