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Pearls come from pain. They're formed when a grain of sand or other foreign object lodges itself in a mollusk. If the mollusk is not able to dislodge the object it becomes an irritant causing friction and discomfort. It is at that point that the mollusk begins to secrete mother of pearl, which builds layer upon layer of a sheen over the irritant. When this layering process is complete, it produces a perfect pearl of great value and desire.God gave us a beautiful display of the process of pain in our lives through this natural process of the, might I say unattractive, mollusk, that produces one of the most desired gems in the world. If pearls are birthed from irritants – from pain and from friction – then we see that a pearl of true value comes from allowing GOD to have his way and do HIS WILL in our lives without our interference and without our interjection and without our help! We must allow God to have His way in us, even in the most incomprehensible and disturbing pain in our lives. .
These pains and irritants come from the circumstances and situations and perhaps relationships we experience. Pearls are not made from passing circumstances or fleeting things that don’t affect us – they are produced when the pain and irritant lodge themselves in our souls and in our spirit. No one but you knows the depth of your own heartache and the carried wounds of private pain & suffering.
The heart knows its own bitterness Prov. 14:10
Yet to embrace His perfect work in your life You must first accept His sovereignty, power and authority in your life and with the pain you experience and you must trust HIM. You can trust Him because He "feels you". Remember: God the father has known the bitterness of heart over the betrayal of Lucifer and his angels. The most beautiful creations in heaven who offered the most beautiful of all worship to him, rose against Him. Jesus knows the bitterness of the soul over the mutiny and hatred of people. Jesus is referred to in Isaiah 53:3 as “rejected by men”, and John 1:1 he came to His own and His own did not receive him.” The Word also tells us that He was tempted in all ways without sin, and I can imagine that some of that temptation was His reaction and response to those rejections.
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We can trust a God the Father, we can trust Jesus, who has endured pain and through pain obtained the highest value and reward. He knows that ultimate reward and perfection are achieved through suffering. We must trust His judgements and His ways because He has a wisdom about our suffering that sees the pearl at the end of the process and that natural pearl that is of the highest value can not be produced through a process without that pain.
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Job said in chapter 11:7 “Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than heaven – what can you do? Deeper than Sheol – what can you know?Their measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.”