shortlady
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A VESSEL OF GOLD
It takes a great amount of heat to purify the most precious and treasured metal in the worldýgold. The blacksmith is aware of the numerous hours it takes, the anguish and the pain of being in close contact with so much heat but of far greater value to him is the splendor, glory, and wealth embedded in the finish product.
Our Father is like a skillful blacksmith. He takes His time to produce vessels of gold for His service. He takes additional time to work on His vessels of gold. When he identifies a vessel of gold He takes that vessel through the process of purification. He places that vessel in the heat of affliction, ordeals, pain and distress not for destruction but to extract the best from it. He understands fully well that the degree of splendor depends on the amount of pressure. He loves the vessel enormously but he can not bear to rescue it from the pain or to reduce the amount of heat because He wants pure gold: spotless, blameless, a vessel that is able to carry His glory.
The greatest example is His own son Jesus Christ who had to go through the furnace of rejection, of untold suffering to become the spotless vessel on which He could offer salvation unto the world. The pressure was so strong on Jesus Christ that he actually wanted to give up. God did not remove completely or reduce the intensity of the suffering. He rather strengthen Him to endure (Luke 22: 42-42).
Paul was another example. He was always conscious of the depth into which he had fallen. How God picked him from the miry clay and transformed him from a zealous persecutor of His disciples to the chief Apostle.
God bless you,
Nguh-Nwei
It takes a great amount of heat to purify the most precious and treasured metal in the worldýgold. The blacksmith is aware of the numerous hours it takes, the anguish and the pain of being in close contact with so much heat but of far greater value to him is the splendor, glory, and wealth embedded in the finish product.
Our Father is like a skillful blacksmith. He takes His time to produce vessels of gold for His service. He takes additional time to work on His vessels of gold. When he identifies a vessel of gold He takes that vessel through the process of purification. He places that vessel in the heat of affliction, ordeals, pain and distress not for destruction but to extract the best from it. He understands fully well that the degree of splendor depends on the amount of pressure. He loves the vessel enormously but he can not bear to rescue it from the pain or to reduce the amount of heat because He wants pure gold: spotless, blameless, a vessel that is able to carry His glory.
The greatest example is His own son Jesus Christ who had to go through the furnace of rejection, of untold suffering to become the spotless vessel on which He could offer salvation unto the world. The pressure was so strong on Jesus Christ that he actually wanted to give up. God did not remove completely or reduce the intensity of the suffering. He rather strengthen Him to endure (Luke 22: 42-42).
Paul was another example. He was always conscious of the depth into which he had fallen. How God picked him from the miry clay and transformed him from a zealous persecutor of His disciples to the chief Apostle.
God bless you,
Nguh-Nwei
