I have always loved Job, and now I guess I have had a taste of what it feels like to go through the fire and feel the muck being burned away. I realize that God is what I need, and I feel like there is nothing left. He knows where I have been and He knows where I am going, and yet He still chooses to try me, to test me in the flames and to be willing to polish me off as pure gold. I feel , and have felt for a long time that gold is a huge metaphor for my life. I don’t feel like a precious metal yet, but I know that the Lord is changing me from the inside out. What He is calling forth in me is something that is priceless and beautiful and worthy of the calling for my life. I look to Him for life, and that’s it.
I don’t know where you are at in your life, but know that no matter what situation you are in, how old you are, or how much you don’t think you deserve the love that is longing to bring you to life, know that God is waiting.
He has so much that He wants to give you and to breathe into you and to restore from the broken pieces of you.
He can make you whole.
Willingness is all that it takes.
He does not expect you to be perfect or to say the right words or to sing the right songs or wear the right clothes… He says, “Come as you are and I will be with you. I will walk alongside you, if you let me. I will not fail you as so many have. I can refine you, and even though it may hurt for a bit, I have beauty waiting on the other side… beauty that does not fade and that will never disappoint. Just take my hand, say yes, and open up to my love.” He’s calling out to you…
