It's All In Our Perspective
Have you ever wondered why God allows us to go through some of the "stuff" we experience in life? It may be illness, a death, a job loss, a torn relationship - or as an old song once put it, "A time of trouble". We have all been there - probably many times. The problem is our perspective. As the created, we cannot see the same picture as the creator, nor should we. We want to see and know all the reasons but they are not ours to understand. There is one fact that remains though, if we are a true follower of Christ, and that is that God wants to take every situation that we experience in life and use it to make us more like Him.
I ran across this little story the other day that beautifully expresses the essence of this thought.
Malachi 3:3 says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver."
This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.
One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study. That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver. As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.
The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver." She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined.
The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it"
What is awesome is that, just like the silversmith must sit and watch the molten metal in the fire and never take his eyes off it, so God will never leave us in our time of sorrow and trouble. He watches us through it all. And how incredible is it to know that God will never put more on us than we can bear.
There is also one more truth here - that it is during these times of trials is when we grow to be more like Him the most.
Think about it the next time you begin to "feel the fire". It's not easy but seeing it all from God's perspective can sure change things for us on our end.
posted by stansblog @ 4:37 AM
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