Refined By Fire

-January 18, 2024-

Good morning beloved, happy Thursday,

“For you, O God, have tested us; You have refined us as silver is refined.”

(Psalm 66:10).

We should not be surprised that God tests our faith. He uses people and circumstances in His refining process. Silver and gold are precious metals that are refined by fire. Job said, “But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.”

The Steve Green song says, “There burns a fire with sacred heat, white hot with holy flame. And all who dare pass through its blaze will not emerge the same. Some as bronze, and some as silver, some as gold, then with great skill, all are hammered by their sufferings, on the anvil of His will. The Refiner’s fire has now become my sole desire. Purged and cleansed and purified that the Lord be glorified. He is consuming my soul, refining me, making me whole. No matter what I may lose, I choose the Refiner’s fire.”

God allows trials in our lives to test, grow, and strengthen our faith. He knows how much we can handle and He stretches us to the limit. God doesn’t test to burn us but to refine us. Peter in writing to the saints in 1 Peter 4:12 wrote, ‘Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, that you may also be glad with exceeding joy.”

Let us submit ourselves to the Refiner’s fire. Stay safe and healthy.

Fiery trials bring purified lives,

Dean