TRANSFORMATION
Illustration★★★★Once a man went to call at the place of business of one of his friends, a jeweler with a large clientele. The jeweler showed his friend a store of superb diamonds and other precious stones. Among them was a stone so lustreless that the friend said: “That one has no beauty at all.” “Hasn’t it?” asked the jeweler, lifting the stone from the tray and closing his fist over it.
In a few moments, when he opened his hand, the stone glowed with all the splendor of the rainbow. “Why, what have you done to it?” asked the friend. The jeweler smiled. “That is an opal,” he said.
“It is what we call a sympathetic jewel. It needs only to be gripped with the human hand to bring out all its wonderful beauty.” To become the uniquely beautiful person God intended you to be, you must position yourself within the grip of the hand of God.
The point
Like an opal that only reveals its beauty when gripped by a human hand, a person becomes truly beautiful only when held in the grip of God's hand.