Under Pressure? God Is Transforming You Into A Diamond.

"A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure." Henry Kissinger

 Maybe today, you feel like you have all the world's weight on your shoulders. Maybe you feel the pressure of your life and all that is going on it weighing heavy on your heart. Is this you today? Are you in one of these positions? If so, I want to encourage you with the fact that God is using this pressure and this stressful situation that you are in to make you shine even brighter.
 Now how is this? How is it that something so stressful and something that weighs on us so heavily will be used to make us better than we were before? For it surely doesn't feel like that is happening right now. But my friend, that is just how God works! See, in the process of making a diamond, do you know what it first starts out as? A dirty, old piece of coal. One of the most unappealing materials. But once it is put under a certain amount of pressure, it is transformed into one of the most beautiful stones on this earth. So don't you think that this is what God is trying to do with us? He is trying to take this person that we are, no matter how run down or beaten up you might be, and make us into this beautiful creation that He has us to be through this pressure.
 So today, I want you to trust God, knowing that He is going to use this situation that you are in to transform you into the beautiful creation that He has you to be.