Panning Gold was a huge craze in 1849. The process basically consists of placing the material that you want to process into your pan and shaking it in a left to right motion underwater to cause the gold, which is heavy, to work its way down toward the bottom of your pan. At the same time, the lighter materials, which are worthless, are worked up to the surface of the gold pan where they can be swept away. The process of shaking and sweeping is repeated until only the heaviest of materials are left-namely the gold and heaviest black sand.
Sounds like life, doesn't it?
I believe this is the perfect analogy of what life is...panning for gold. Life happens, we all know that...the Bible says it will rain on the just and the unjust. Just because you decide to become a Christian doesn't make you exempt from life...
There is a song that goes, "I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden" Well God never said our lives would be a bed of roses.
But I have learned that in every situation in life we are to act as the gold panners. Take the situations, shake them down....let the nasty pass away and hold on the the nugget...plant it and learn from it.
There is a gold nugget in every life experience, we just have to look for it!!!
Zechariah 13:9
I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'The LORD is our God.' "
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