Scripture Bracelet

Recently, a friend of mine gave me a bracelet that had random beads that didn’t go together. I was thrilled because, you know, she’s new at beading. The more I looked at the beads I realized that there was some sort of repetition to them, but there was no particular order to them. When I finally looked up at her with the confusion on my face, she explained what the bracelet was really about.

It was Scripture bracelet. The passage that she used was Matthew 6:25-30 Jesus’ teachings on Worry. Each bead represented a word or phrase in the passage. I tell you it makes it really easy to help me remember this passage!

At first I though, there’s so many passages she could have used why this one about worry? Well, I don’t tend to be a worrier. I believe God is control of everything and if He even knows when a Sparrow falls in the field why would He not care more about me? There have been times, I will admit, when it seems like God just isn’t there and I’m standing alone in the dark wondering what to do next. That’s when hard times fall on me. A loss of a family member, money issues, the endless night with a toddler who is sick to his stomach (that was recently, shouldn’t have given him pizza)., it’s those times when I don’t know what do to but pray. ..and worry… can’t help it, I’m human too.

So this beaded bracelet, this random chaos of colors, this piece of jewelry with beads that were very carefully chosen with a Scripture Passage that means so much to me in my everyday life, was made with love from a fellow sister in Christ. Talk about humbling me. Every time I look at the bracelet and think of my friend I am reminded ‘not to worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow has it’s own problems‘. I am reminded of Gods love for me, and now I feel closer to Him than ever; even when it seems like I’m in the dark.

Matthew 6:25-30 NIV

25“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or stow away in barns, and yet the heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dresses like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?”