At the hotel there is a bathroom with a "complementary hand massage." It's just a bowl with some green colored salt. The instruction say to wet your hands, scoop a small amount of salt into your hands, rub them together for "at least a minute," then rinse.
Let me tell you, this process does not really feel all that great. The salt actually kinda hurts. It's sort of like rubbing sand paper on your hands. It feels like you are scraping off the top layer of your skin... and that's actually exactly what you are doing.
It hurts a little.
Looking back over my life, particularly the last 7 years since I stopped doing Young Life and now find myself back in it, I can see how God has been doing this in my life.
The purpose of scraping off the top layer of skin is to uncover the new skin underneath. The soft, fresh, rejuvenated skin waiting to be released... and it feels wonderful!
Honestly my hands have never felt so lovely.
The dead skin is gone and the new skin is out ready to experience the world!
Isn't this a great picture of spiritual transformation?
It might hurt. It might not feel, initially, and during the actual process, the way we thought, or the way we hoped. It may feel like we are being scraped and ground up and like we are being stripped of everything we thought we were... but the new skin, the self (which isn't new at all, but just been covered up by old life residue) is so much better than the old.
It reflects Christ in you much clearer than before.
You will feel this, you will know Christ in a new more real way, and others will notice it too!
The best thing about this... it will be honest. It won't be you trying to be a certain way, but it will be you truly being you.
So, don't run and hide from the salt scrub, even if it hurts... it's so good for you, and it's a gift from God to help you live more fully in his love.
Peace.
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