Wednesday, August 14, 2013

The Furnace of Affliction


Another image stolen off of Facebook. Need a quick spiritual thought? "Like" the right things and "Friend" the right people.

I chose this image partly because the liquid metal looks awesome, but partly because the concept of refining metal is a pretty good analogy for how God makes people better than they were.

The gold is already within us. God knows where it is and is trying to bring it out.

In order to show our true worth, we must lose our impurities and surrender our vices.

The process of removing the impurities is unpleasant. It's too hot, it's too painful, and most of us don't want to go through with it.

The potential results are far greater than we could ever imagine.

In order to retain the value we gained by being purified, we must remain pure.

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