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REFINE ME, LORD
Fire is important to refine gold, to remove its impurities or unwanted elements.
Our title: “REFINE ME, LORD, THROUGH THE FLAME” was a prayer and must be a prayer of a man that needed to be changed.
We need to change. We are like gold which needs to remove its impurities and unwanted elements.
The impurities and unwanted elements are the character(s) we have that God doesn’t want to see on His believers.
“I WAS BORN THIS WAY” These are the words that I usually heard from those people who don’t want to be corrected and to change.
But naturally and spiritually speaking we are not born this way, but we choose to be this way.
God never creates impurities, He created all perfectly.
So, we need to remove all impurities in us, through the flame that was set before us.
THE FLAME
Did you experience being sear? I was and it’s not a good feeling at all.
But if we want to remove our impurities, the sear is not enough we need to undergo refinery.
We can say we are undergoing refinery when we experience adversities.
Yes. We need to experience adversities in life.
Adversity is a flame that will remove our impurities and will improve our bad characters which are not approved unto God’s sight if we face it positively.
James 1:2
"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;"
TEMPTATIONS here mean ADVERSITY. And the word FALL means be surrounded with: - fall among (into)
Let’s read this verse like the given meaning. “My brethren, count it all joy when ye surrounded with divers adversities”.
Again, adversities can change us in the way God wants if we positively face them.
HOW TO FACE ADVERSITIES?
The word JOY in James 1:2 means cheerfulness, calm delight, gladness, great joy, exceeding joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous.
James teaches us to have joy, to keep our exceeding joy, to be calm even the flame or the adversities surrounded us.
The joy that has a faith that in every adversity we were in, God is with us.
YOU WANT TO BE CHANGED?
Change for the better?
Accept adversities in life with joy for you can obtain patience.
James 1:3-4
[3] Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
[4] But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
And the patience we have can lead us to be perfect. Like Job who surrounded by adversities.
If we will read Job chapters 1 and 2 we will read what Job has been through to be perfect and wanting nothing.
But Job chooses to say and to do:
Job 1:21
"And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."
Job 2:10
"But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips."
He never negatively faces his adversities.
Even Job was surrounded by adversities, he chose to have joy, to keep his exceeding joy, to be calm. Keeping his faith in God. Keeping his confidence in God.
Job 23:10
"But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."
Job admitted that even he needed to be changed. Need to experience adversities that make him gold without impurities and unwanted elements.
The character that God wants him to be.
Brethren,
Want it or not, we need to change. Like gold, we need to undergo refinery to remove all impurities and unwanted elements which are the characters that God never wants us to have.
We are not born this way! Let’s say to the Lord, “REFINE ME, LORD, THROUGH THE FLAME.” And let the Lord controls you.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY
Letter for my Brethren,
I pray when the days of refinery come in our lives we look on it as a blessing, by that God will change us the way He wants in our lives.
The peace of God be with you always, and the blood of Jesus covers you to protect you in all harm, in Jesus' name, Amen.
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