Many years ago I was offered a large box of crystals and stones such as amethyst by a work colleague. She was moving house and no longer wanted them.
I was leaving for home and had the box in my hands. Suddenly, as I walked through the carpark, the bottom fell out of the box and a lot of the stones chipped or split as they hit the asphalt and I picked them up and dumped them all in the nearby factory dumpster.
I thought it was strange that so strong a box opened up suddenly and all the contents dropped through. But for many years I forgot about it.
About ten years into my Christian walk, I learned that many of these stones are used in the occult or New Age practices and certain stones are purported to create certain qualities if worn on the body.
I certainly didn't want to have these in my home and it was then that I remembered the quartz and so on that were given to me back then. Today, I wouldn't have accepted them but I was ignorant about New Age practices at the time. I was glad that the box did break apart.
It dawned on me that God was protecting me from bringing these things into my home. Even now I am not sure whether they were used in that way by the girl who endowed them to me.
Looking back, I believe that the girl did believe in their so called powers as the amount of stones and crystals were too much to just have as display ornaments.
I know that these things are in and of themselves a part of God's creation, but even so, these same things are used in wiccan and other celebrations and superstitions.
Everything belongs to the LORD and is not evil of itself, but it is man who attributes powers and such and misuses that which He created that is the problem.
I am so glad that God looks after His children who have not yet reached an understanding of inherent dangers in certain things. He is kind, loving and patient. He is a good Father. It makes sense now.
© Glenys Robyn Hicks
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein. Psalm 24:1
