If you want pure gold
and silver they must survive the test of fire.
Fire gets rid of all the impurities that may be found there. The end result of going through the fire is a
product that is beautiful, pure and of great worth.
It is the same with
the soul. In order for the soul to be
something of beauty and useful to God, it must first be tested and refined by
God. The goal of God as He works in us
is to make us pure. He never stops
working on us because He knows that we will never be 100% pure this side of
heaven. He created us with a will and He
knows that we don’t always choose to cooperate with Him. We struggle and sometimes fight the
process. We don’t like the process of
going through the fire; it makes us uncomfortable and sometimes it hurts a
lot. We try to avoid the heat as much as
possible. And the more we struggle
against God, the more we find ourselves in need of God’s testing and refining.
Left alone we will
never become pure in heart; we will avoid the refining fire. We will never be found to be pleasing and
acceptable to God. We must let the Lord
work in us. Knowing that He loves us and
sees the beautiful person we can become, it is in our best interest to submit
to Him and let Him have His way with us.
“Thank you, O Lord, for
not giving up on us. We thank You for
seeing in us something beautiful to reclaim.
We thank You for your refining fire.
We thank You that we are becoming pure in heart. Lord, we confess those times in which we
struggle against you. We know we don’t
always let You have your way with us and thus delay the process of our becoming
pure. We ask You to forgive us. Lord, we must have your help in this. We ask You to strengthen our resolve to not
sin against you. We ask that You do
whatever you need to do in us to make us pure and keep us that way. Lord, test our hearts today. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
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