A Product of Grace

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“Refinement is a product of grace and grace is God’s doing.”

1 Peter 1:7
that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honour, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Talking about refinement, John Bevere says, “God puts us through the process because he is more concerned about us finishing well than starting well.” Refinement is a product of grace and grace is God’s doing.

I have a 9-carat gold wedding ring on my finger. When I look at it, it appears to be gold but, in fact, my ring has only 9 parts gold out of 24 parts. The remaining 15 parts comprise other metals such as nicol, tin, silver and zinc. These metals are not as dense as gold. Therefore, if my ring was to be smelted in a crucible the gold would sink to the bottom while all the unwanted metals would float to the top. I could then take a ladle and scoop off the 15 parts of impurity and be left with 9 parts pure 24-carat gold.

Sometimes difficulties in life can prove to be your crucible immersed in a furnace of fire. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego knew what it was like to face difficulty. They had denied the king’s edict to bow to a statue and were cast into a super-heated furnace. The king expected them to be incinerated but when he gazed into the fire he did not see three men, he saw four. The Lord himself was in the fire with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. Charles Spurgeon said, “As sure as God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.”

That’s God’s grace. Grace is God’s doing and grace rescues us from harm. When apostle Paul underwent this process, the Lord said to him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” Refinement is a product of grace and grace is God’s doing.

God-tracking is being refined by grace.

IT’S ALL IN THE BIBLE. READ ALL ABOUT IT. (NKJV)
Get into the word of God and get the word of God into you!
1 Peter1:6-9
Daniel 3:19-25
2 Corinthians 12:7-10

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SO, DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“If grace is God’s doing then do it in me, O Lord, that I will come out finer than 24-carat gold.”

“Dear God I feel like I’m in the furnace today. Nothing is going right for me. It seems everybody is against me and I face difficulties on every side. Yet, I acknowledge you in all my ways, even in my difficulties. You are Lord of my life and I submit to this fiery furnace in the knowledge that your grace will refine me and pull me through. If grace is God’s doing then do it in me, O Lord, that I will come out finer than 24-carat gold. Amen.”

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FEELING THE HEAT OF GOD’S FURNACE

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“Are you in a furnace today? Be encouraged, your Lord is refining you. Be encouraged, if you’re in the furnace today, he is with you. Charles Spurgeon said, ‘As sure as God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.’”

1 Peter 16:7
so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I used to work in an office that overlooked a steel mill. Across the property boundary was a rail track where rail carriages would line up to receive the dross that resulted from the iron refining process. I watched as carriage after carriage was filled with the disgusting steaming metallic sludge that was skimmed off the purified iron, which was being refined to produce smooth shiny stainless steel.

The same process is employed to refine gold. Gold is precious. Gold is beautiful. However, most gold jewellery we wear is not pure, it is an alloy mix of gold and other metals. When gold is purified, this mixture is heated to a temperature of between 1,000 and 1,100 degrees Celsius. When the metallic mixture reaches this temperature, it melts. In the furnace, the pure gold sinks to the bottom of the crucible while the impure alloy metals separate and rise to the surface. This is called the dross. The sludge of dross is then skimmed off and discarded, leaving beautiful precious pure 24-carat gold behind in the crucible.

You are precious. You are beautiful. You have deep hidden qualities that God rejoices over. He who is holy has called you to be beautifully holy as he is holy. There is an old song that goes, “Purify my heart, let me be as gold and precious silver. Refiner's fire, my heart's one desire is to be holy.” Only in the heat of God’s furnace can you, and I, be refined to become holy. Only in the heat of God’s furnace will the dross of the old life rise to the surface that it may be skimmed off, revealing beautiful precious qualities of holiness within you.

Are you in a furnace today? Be encouraged, your Lord is refining you. Be encouraged, if you’re in the furnace today, he is with you. Charles Spurgeon said, “As sure as God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.”

God-tracking is a refining process

READ ALL ABOUT IT
Zephaniah 3:17
1 Peter 1:15
1 Peter 1:6-7
James 1:2-4

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DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

Dear Lord, if this is a process to refine me like pure gold, please cause the dross in my life to rise up that you may skim it off

“O Lord, I feel like I’m in a fiery furnace today. So much is going wrong. I have so many needs and have called on you for healing, protection and deliverance but it seems you don’t hear me. Yet, I know you do hear me! Dear Lord, if this is a process to refine me like pure gold, please cause the dross in my life to rise that you may skim it off. Help me through this trial. Help me to stay strong and endure the heat in faith that you will, indeed, come through for me. Lord, you are faithful. You never abandon me, even in the fiery furnace. Amen.”

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