"He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver," Malachi 3:3.
Who's the refiner? The Lord God, Jehovah. Who'll be refined? God's people. Nobody can avoid it. It takes hot heat to slag away the dross. Careful control purifies without destroying precious gold and silver. Just so, God's refining fire purifies carefully. It brings swift witness against any failing to fear God. How do they show that they don't fear God? Here's what it says: sorcerers, adulterers, liars; whoever oppresses the hired workers, or the widows, or the fatherless, or the foreigners. But God's fire will not consume his people. No. Not at all. Rather, now purified, they return to God offering themselves. And he turns to them, his precious treasure.
We remind each other today, brother or sister, of Christ's cross that controlled for the purifying heat. And, sanctified together in his Spirit, we give grateful praise to our holy God.
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