Daily Devotional: Finding Diamonds in Difficulty – Part 2

Read Proverbs 3:5-6

I am breaking from my usual devotional post, today, to share with you a poem that was inspired by the Finding Diamonds in Difficulty devotional. 

I walked upon a garden path

Along the roses’ bed

Its fragrant scent drifted by

Mingling with the song inside my head

 

This seemed to me to be a place

Where diamonds would be found

But alas none appeared to me

Above or beneath the ground

 

I traveled, next, to a sunny beach

Filled with warm and silky sand

Surely diamonds are here I mused

Scooping bits of shoreline with my hand

 

The elusive gem did not appear

Though I searched from sun to moon

That diamond must be somewhere close

I’m sure I’ll find it soon

 

I even searched the forest green

The prairie and the hill

It was not for lack of trying

Or even lack of will

 

That I could not find that diamond

So mysteriously unseen

I finally stopped and asked the Lord

Is there no diamond meant for me?

 

He brought me to a mound of dirt

So unattractive in my view

It contained a host of jagged rocks

And coarse sand of blandest hue

 

There cannot be a diamond here

It’s far too harsh and much too cruel

To believe there is a diamond here

One would think I am a fool

 

His smile seemed to say He knew

Exactly how I felt

But He said this is where I’d stay

I began to cry, and then I knelt

 

I prayed that God would help me find

The diamond in this place

I wondered if He still was there

If again I’d see His face

 

The days were long. The work was hard

I thought it’d never end

Was there something I’d done wrong?

Was there something I had to mend?

 

I realized, then, the tools I needed

He had given me

To find the diamond in my life

This is where I had to be

 

At last I saw a tiny spark

I worked harder to dig deep

The glint then grew to a brighter glow

Underneath the dusty heap

 

I praised Him when I realized

He brought me to this place

So I could learn to trust Him

And grow stronger through His grace

 

You see it wasn’t just a diamond

That God had meant for me

Indeed it was a treasure trove

Found through difficulty