Recovered In Christ

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. (Job 23:10)

The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests hearts. (Job 17:3)

I have learned alot from working for a gold and base metal exploration company. It’s cleared up alot of misconceptions I’ve had about how the process works. My crude imaginations of 20th century men with long beards and picks wading into streams looking for gold nuggets has been replaced with the knowledge of what it actually takes to look for gold. And then what it takes to extract it from the ore – and purify it so that it will actually be the ‘gold’ you know to be gold. When I used to hear Christians talking about God testing them, it made me angry, furious. Like what kind of a God do you believe in that sets people up with spiritual quizzes – that if they fail or get a below average mark they’ll be rejected? I had no idea what ‘to be tested’ meant. I didn’t know that they were talking about the same kind of testing a manufacturer will put his product through before distribution. Not to see if it will pass or fail in some moral judgement, but to see if it’s ready to be the final product he had in mind at its creation!

God – what can I say, I had alot of noise inside of me, noise produced from a rebellious mind that wanted to make up its own truth, be its own God, and alot of noise from the Devil ruled world – that whispers constant twisted interprestaions of the Bible to accuse you God to your people. But. You reached through the noise. You reached into my life and silenced the accuser. You showed me that every attack and crisis in my life was the fire that separated the impurities from the GOLD you created me to be. You used the furnace of my life to test my heart. To make it like yours. It was probably the most excrutiaing time of my life. I thought I would lose my faith for good. But you then gave me true faith. Not the blind leap kind, but the kind based on having confidence in the ONE. The kind of faith that has seen the face of The Way, The Truth and The Life. The kind that has told my heart that I Will Come Forth As Gold. Amen.