Like most people, we have a junk drawer in the kitchen. Oh sure, we have a drawer for knives, and another drawer for tableware, but, like most, our kitchen has a junk drawer.
When we open a 4-pack of AA batteries, but the clock only needs two…the remaining two go into the junk drawer.
We need someplace to store those extra paper clips and clothes pins used to secure opened bags of chips…so into the junk drawer they go.
When the daughter leaves her hair berets on the kitchen counter and we’re too lazy to return them to the bathroom…we hide those right next to the batteries…in the junk drawer.
Before long we have a junk drawer that contains scotch tape, scissors, twist ties, loose change, grandpa’s broken pocket watch, a spare set of keys to the car we sold last fall, and that funny shaped piece of wire used to dip the Easter eggs into the colored water.
None of these items seem to have an important purpose right now, but they’re all too valuable to throw away. We assume that sometime, someday we’ll need each of those items. So…into the junk drawer they go!
I admit to having spent time in God’s junk drawer. There were times when I seemed useless and unnecessary…but God realized I was too valuable to be thrown away.
At least when God needs me…God knows where to find me…
