"to have found God and to still pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love."
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This morning as I was driving, Jesus pressed upon my mind the story of Daniel and his three friends. Jesus allowed the king to cast them into the fire, but not alone, He stood in the fire with them. And though they should have been consumed, God didn't allow them to be.
God hasn't change. He is still that same God today that lead Daniel back then. Jesus allows us to walk through the fire, but never alone. We might feel as though there's no way we won't be consumed but He has promised that He won't allow it. That fire isn't meant to consume us, but to open our eyes to our sinfulness, to our own filthiness and need for His cleaning and refining. To feel our sense of need for His redeeming love. Without the fire, we could never be brought forth as gold as the Bible says. 1 Peter 1:7- "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found auto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ." Job 23:10 - "But He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." Jesus uses the fire to refine us. To purge away all the dross from our hearts, to purify us, shape us, mold us, remake, and create us into perfect similitudes of His character, love and life. Through the fire Jesus wants to consume us with His transforming mercy, grace, calming presence and matchless, unconditional, endless love. He has promised in 1 Peter 5:10 - "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." This fire is just for a time. For soon Jesus will come, and as you have withstood faithfully through your furnace He will welcome you into your Reward far above and beyond anything you could ever dream. Let your prayer be, as it is mine, for God to purge away all the dross. Open your heart to be consumed with the fire of His transforming love and grace. Though it be painful, the reward is far greater. James 1:12 - "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him."
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