Refining Fire

Doug Hall • March 9, 2025

God's plan is to make us stronger by refining us through the battles we face.

See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.”- Isaiah 48:10

 

God doesn’t refine us to punish us, but rather to purify us in order to prepare us for accomplishing what He created us for.

 

We often want the victory without the battle, we want the promotion without the process and we want the crown without the cross. But God knows we need to be refined through his process in order to be ready to receive the promotion. We need to be built up through the battles in order to claim the victory, and we need to understand the suffering of the cross in order to receive the crown. Trust God. He is the Potter and we are the clay!