You are being Refined for a Greater Purpose

“But out of the sheer goodness of my heart, because of who I am, I keep a tight reign on my anger and hold my temper. I don’t wash my hands of you. Do you see what I’ve done? I’ve refined you, but not without fire. I’ve tested you like silver in the furnace of affliction.” Isaiah 48:9-10 MSG

Out of God’s love for his children, he will never destroy them, but he will refine them for a greater purpose.

I get it, we’ve all done wrong, we are all sinners, and we deserve death. Sometimes I beat myself up for being the worst of all sinners, no matter how big or small my sin, because I hate doing anything against God who I truly love so much. Yet, no matter what I do or we do or you do, he doesn’t hate us. God doesn’t let his anger overcome him, he shows us grace and mercy. So, don’t ever believe that your trial is the consummation of the Punishment for your Sin.

The trials we go through are there to refine us for a greater purpose. Yes, some of the trials may be the consequence of the sin we committed because every choice naturally has a consequence. But that consequence isn’t there to destroy us but to remove the tarnish and show the beauty of God in the finished product. Sometimes the trials we go through are no consequence of our own. They could be consequence of another’s decision or just the consequence of the original sin that has tarnished how our life on earth should’ve been. Either way, God wants to use our trials to glorify Him and bring beauty from our ashes.

Picture this: when any metal (silver, gold or anything else) is put into the fire, as the heat rises the impurities separate from the metal and the remainder is an its purest form.

So, as we are going through our own fires, our own trials, no matter what brought them on, we won’t be destroyed. We can come out unharmed if we walk through the fire with God. We will be glorifying him on the other side just like Daniel‘s friends: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. (Daniel 3)

God’s ultimate goal from the trials that we go through is to grow us closer to him and glorify him as we come out.

“In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief and all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith — of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refine by fire — may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus is revealed.” 1 Peter 1:6-7