I can’t help but proclaim the sweet but severe mercy of God, and the way He continues to deliver on His promises to His children, and to respond to a willing heart’s petition for two things: to be refined and purified by His fire. What a terrifying thing to ask for!! Yet it is the only way to Him, to Truth, to the unimaginable redeemed life.
I know with certainty that God radically transforms the lives of those who persistently ask and seek, no matter what burdens or baggage we carry. With great anticipation, I look through His refining and purifying fire, to the precious time that remains for me, to live the redeemed life, to serve others in sincerity and truth, to love and cherish my son, my family, and my dear friends, to live each day as if my last, and to simply be a vessel – an old dusty jar of clay – through which the life, light and love of Christ has its way in my stubborn soul.
Oh how great our God who loved a wretch like me. What amazing Grace for all who come, just as we are!
