They are interesting objects if you think about it. They are the only objects that I can think of that have to be broken then shaken up before it will work.
I was recently teaching a message about conflict with God. One of the topics that got brought up was the idea of natural disasters and if it is fair to blame God for them.
The example that was used was Hurricane Katrina. So much destruction was caused by this natural disaster. So many lives were flipped upside down and completely shaken up.
Friends and loved ones lost. Homes destroyed.
We can look at something like this and wonder where God is. How could this come from a loving god? Non believers use situations like this as ways to disprove the existence of God.
But let's look at how when there is a disaster of sort - thousands of people turn to God or the church for comfort.
Now look back at the glow stick.
You take a glow stick, break it in half, then shake it up and it glows brightly. What if these situations, these disasters, these times when things just don't seem to go right, are not punishments, but instead us being broken, shaken up, so we can glow with the brightness of God's love and mercy?
I believe that there are times when we become so distracted, so preoccupied with our day to day that our relationship with God becomes one of complacency and routine. There are times when God needs to shake things up to get our attention.
Now, this is not to say that the reason there are disasters are so God can get our attention. Since we do not know how God works in the larger sense, there is no way to say why God allows these things to happen.
I am but merely suggesting, that when things are going wrong in your life, when you feel like your life is being turned upside down, maybe that is God's way of breaking and shaking you so you can glow brighter for Him
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