Shaking the Piggy Bank
Analogy★★★★WHEN WE were kids, many of us had a piggy bank that had a little slot in the top for us to drop change into. There was only one way to get that money out of the piggy bank back then, when it wasn’t sophisticated.
You had to flip it over and shake it. If I wanted a lot of change, I had to do a lot of shaking. Why? Because there was something of value on the inside that I needed to come out on the outside.
The only way to get it from the inside to the outside was to shake it loose. God’s given us a great treasure in our earthen vessels, but there’s so much callousness, hardness, independence, and self- sufficiency on the outside, that it keeps the beauty of Christ trapped on the inside.
What God’s got to do is to shake us up until He can get out of us what He knows is in there.
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The point
God uses trials and shaking to bring out the treasure of Christ's character from within us, just as shaking a piggy bank releases coins.