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Tuesday, August 03, 2004
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Clearing my mail box when i came across this mail sent to me by Aaron...
Refiner’s Fire
A group of women were studying the book of Malachi. As they were studying Chapter Three, they came across verse 3 which says :
“ He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. “
This verse puzzled the women and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out about the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.
That week this woman called up a silversmith and made and appointment to watch him at work. She didn’t mention anything about the reason for her interest in silver 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 so as to burn away all the impurities.
The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot-then she thought about the verse, that 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 even 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 you are in God’s hand, He has His eye on you, He will not let you be destroyed, and He will keep holding you and watching you until He sees His image in you.
Pray tt it had encourage ya a little...
A little update after a zillion years of MIA... me is fine... all had been well... school is beginning to take a toil on me as i kept fallin ill and weak... but it has been exciting all these while since i transfered to SP group... thank God for my leaders and the sheepmates He had blessed me with... they had beenf aithful and encouraging no matter wad they heard of me... they had been motivating and had been spuring me on... they willingly open their lives and was ready to share life with me in a intimate and deep level... really thank Go for them... had been experiencing God in this time of tiredness and honestly... a little unwillingness to do somethings... but nonetheless He had not felt tired and unwilling but has always been by my side... really wanna thank God!!! Well... so far... i had been coping well with my studies and not really struggling to keep up unmlike my time in ChE in TP... pray and hope for the best... the students and lecturers are real nice... haha...
Countdown:
26 more days to my birthday BBQ... those on the invitation list:
SP unit
TP guys
YEastD guys
DPFM 1B/23
DPFM 1B/24
Mun Hong
Jesyln
Ally (and gang...Ming Choo etc lor)
SuatLing
that could be quite a lot... and becoz it is a lot...sorry to some pple whom is not in the invite list... i book a small pit... pray tt it is enough to squeeze... if not i may have to cut my invitation list even further... but i dun wanna do tt... sigh...
also... 29 more days to my birthday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!
timtitus fishing at 4:34 pm
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