Today’s Thought “A Cinderella or Cinderfella of Sorts” G. Ward

Proverbs 17:3

The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests hearts.

 

Before a jeweler or a silversmith pursues what he knows will ultimately become a brilliant, precious metal, he’s faced with what appears to be useless fragments saturated with natural impurities and whereas the Almighty made man in HIS image, so as to reflect divine qualities (cf. Eph.5:1-2), sin distorts that proposed imagery. Unless there’s a turning from our natural state (i.e., leading ourselves, while conjuring a perceived righteous code), we fail to a measure of common irresponsibility, being entirely incomplete – while denying our Only Refiner’s heating mechanism to enable what was a dull, unattractive being onto a brilliance within and allowing that Light to shine in a dreary world.