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Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God? If you’ve ever been a witness in a court room you know the weightiness of what it means to “be a witness”. We talk about being a witness for Christ today on Faith’s Checkbook with Charles Spurgeon.
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Faith’s Checkbook
Daily Devotional Reading by Charles Spurgeon
For February 9
The Dross Purged
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. (Zechariah 13:9)
Grace transforms us into precious metal, and then the fire and the furnace follows as a necessary consequence. Are we shocked at this? Would we just as soon be counted worthless, that we might enjoy repose, like the stones of the field! This would be to choose the viler part — like Esau, to take the pottage and give up the covenant portion. No, Lord; we will gladly be cast into the furnace rather than be cast out from Your presence!
The fire only refines; it does not destroy. We are to be brought through the fire, not left in it. The Lord values His people as silver, and therefore He is at pains to purge away their dross. If we are wise, we shall rather welcome the refining process than decline it. Our prayer will be that our alloy may be taken from us rather than that we should be withdrawn from the crucible.
O Lord, You try us indeed! We are ready to melt under the fierceness of the flame. Still, this is Your way, and Your way is the best. Sustain us under the trial and complete the process of our purifying, and we will be Yours forever and ever. †
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