They are pretty. Some of them. But something that happened to me a few years ago made me want to put trust in them. Yes. I had officially lost it. Thank the Lord, He pulled me out before I could go under and as I reflected back on that, I am totally amazed at how much I was ready to put my trust in the "healing power" of something that had no power. It was created. It was a decoration. It was a paperweight. It was a rock! A pretty colored rock more commonly known as a crystal or a mineral rock.
I had been having pain in my knee and I was told that a green crystal/mineral called malachite had the "power" to heal my knee. I got a ring from a craft show that had some malachite in it as the stone and I started wearing it and oddly enough my knee stopped hurting and swelling. I was having bad dreams so I got a piece of amethyst and put it under my pillow. The dreams went away. I started looking for information on the internet on meditation and relaxation and stuff like that. Once I did, I started feeling very weird. Almost like I was being watched. Long story and a few really good sermons later, I realized that God, the Creator of all things, was the only one who could heal. I stopped wearing the ring and I took the amethyst from under my pillow. My bad dreams went away and my knee didn't hurt or swell. I have learned from this experience that to want something like a rock to put faith in to heal was a reflection on just how little faith I really had. How can someone, anyone, not have faith in God to heal but can have faith in a rock that just sits there doing nothing but looking pretty? I guess that is how Satan works. He does not want people to believe in God so he used God's own creation to draw a person's faith in God away.
I am so thankful that I am a child of God. If I had not been a child of God, He would not have spoken to me and protected me from what could have amounted to be a very dangerous situation. As He says in His word, "My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me."
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