Refining Silver


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Refining Silver
Malachi
3:03 "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver."  

This has been around before, but it has a good word that is worth hearing again.  It is certainly worth hearing the first time if it happens to be new to you.

Rev. Dwayne Wheat

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." 

If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has His  eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you. 

Pass this on because right now, this very moment, someone needs to know  that God is watching over them. And, whatever they're going through,  they'll be a better person in the end. 

 

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