Let It Burn

These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world. 1 Peter1:7

Trials can purify our Faith the way fire can purify gold. Perhaps we haven't endured the 'process' long enough to reveal His Glory, so we have to spend more time in the furnace. We beg & whine about the heat and discomfort. We quit before everything false is burned away. We underestimate Him and ourselves by quitting before He has finished. We need to ask God to complete the work He intends to do in us, not the work we will allow Him to do. If we can take the heat now we can reveal His Glory now. If we let it burn now, we won't have to go through the same flames later.

I will bring that group through the fire and make them pure. I will refine them like silver and purify them like gold. They will call on my name,and I will answer them. I will say, ‘These are my people,’and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’” Zechariah 13:9