Letting Go …
A simple set of pool
balls. A few years ago I bought them new
along with a couple of cue sticks when I had been given an inexpensive pool
table. I spent the money so I could play
a game that I could play alone. I enjoy
the angles of pool. Due to reasons I had
agreed to, I had to put the pool table on its edge up against the wall. I thought it would only be a short time, but
time passed. When I could finally get
the pool table back out, it had been ruined and I had to throw it away. I still had the cue sticks and the pool
balls, but no table.
Since I was having fundraising
garage sales it made sense to put the cue sticks and the pool balls in the
sale. But, any time someone looked at
them and asked what I wanted for them I would say a high price so they wouldn’t
buy them. One gal offered me just a
couple of dollars. She wanted to glue
them together for decoration! I couldn’t
let them go for that! They were barely
used and needed used for their intended use!
A guy came in a offered me a decent price for the cue sticks. He said he had a friend with a pool table and
he could use a couple good cue sticks.
After several people asked about them and no one wanted my price for
them, I started thinking, “Why am I so stubborn about the pool balls? I don’t
have a pool table, the cue sticks are gone now, so why am I wanting to hold on
to the pool balls?”
Late on a Saturday a couple
came to the garage sale and were excited when they saw the pool balls. They asked me what I wanted for them. I asked what they intended doing with
them. They explained they play
competition pool and are always looking for good pool balls. They offered a reasonable price and I agreed.
My sadness with those pool
balls made me start to think about what God must think of us. God made us with a purpose, but He also gave
us free will. How disappointed does He
get with us when we don’t use our talents and our lives to bring Him
glory? He doesn’t want any to
perish. He paid the ultimate price for
our redemption! We shouldn’t just take
our abilities and glue them together, put up on a shelf, to just be admired. Use your life for Him!
I let the pool balls go to
people who would use them for their intended purpose. May I be used for His glory!
