It is no surprise why the  blog “Le Dynamique Professeur” was awarded the Most Inspiring Blog in 2010. In this guest post “You Are Gold On The Inside” read and be INSPIRED…

In the mid-twentieth century, in Bangkok, Thailand, the government wanted to build a large highway through a village. Yet in the path of the planned road was a Buddhist monastery with a little chapel, so they had to relocate the monastery – including a heavy, eleven-foot clay statue of buddha – to another place. Using a crane, the government workers moved the monastery in sections.

When the workers transported the statue of Buddha to the new location and began to lower it into place, however, the clay on the statue started to crumble and fall off. The people were afraid because this was a precious religious symbol to them, and they didn’t want it to be destroyed. Yet the more the workers tried to place the statue, the more it fell apart until, eventually, all the clay was falling off. Suddenly, the workers stared in amazement because, as the clay fell away, something unexpected was revealed.

The statue was pure gold underneath. Before the statue was moved, people thought it worth about fifty thousand dollars. Today, that golden Buddha is worth millions and, because of the story behind it, is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year.

 

Some people have been so carried away by happenings around them so much that they have underestimated what lies in them and what can be done through them. So many are living as clay vessels when in the true sense, they are pure, priceless gold on the inside. The key to unlocking this reality is seeing beyond your circumstances, limitations, environment, people’s opinion about you, your salary/wage or anything temporary.

Hear what God has to say about you…

“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” [Jeremiah 1:5]

There is something on your inside right before your birth into this world. God’s depositions are your inside. Just like the case of Jeremiah who thought he could not speak and had no influence on the people of Israel at that time contrary to his opinion about himself, God had deposited loads on his inside, unction to function; capability without a cap; to dazzle his generation and the ones to come with.

Hear these,

“Look behind; you find regret, look around; you get worry, look before you; you see progress” – Anonymous

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Many, like the Buddha statue in the story needs to be relocated in order for them to discover the gold in them. Some need to be in some measure of discomfort in order for the priceless gold on their inside to be unveiled. Some need forces of life to push them around a little before they get to understand the stuffs they are made of on the inside. What you have on your inside will continue to reside until you decide to turn the tide. No wonder, God sometimes allows challenges to shake us. The true measure of Gold only comes after its tried in fire not when it is in the mud or clay underground.

Life awaits the greatness in you; the whole world is earnestly waiting to see what you have on your inside. Romans 8:19 says, “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God”. Beloved, the world is eager to experience those rich deposits on the inside of you; you are an embodiment of God’s divine resource that cannot be undermined nor underestimated by any economic retrogression or financial incapability. You are worth more than you value yourself to be. You are a child of God, and should you not know, you are worth the death of the son of God! Let nothing or anyone pull you down…

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