And God Speaks a Prophet's Counsel: Relationships
Many times in the process we lose ourselves. At some point in our lives we have doubts; we are rejected, suffering from identity crisis, and not to mention relational challenges. The Lord never intended for life's trials to bring us to a pit stop. Those challenges come forth in order to polish and refined us. It's awesome to be tried by the fire and come forth pure as gold. God's plans for our lives are to bring us to a place of perfecting. He desires that we maintain in the original image that He created us to be (which is to be like HIM). God uses the fiery trials for HIS GLORY (I Peter 4:12). I have personally seen it used as filtration. So that the Word of the Lord flows through us with purity lacking any demonic, ungodly, or fleshly contaminates. It's because of the process, we can stand before man and all they see is Him. And it's our brokenness through the process whereby we can stand before God and He can see Himself. We are created in HIS image (Gen. 1:27). God blessed us to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it (Gen. 1:28)! We are built to endure, persevere, dominate, and conqueror all things. We are a powerful creation, a force to reckon with, & all creation knows that God chose us to be just like Him. 8 Through the process, God develops so much in us. Compassion, excellence, endurance, faith, love, is just a few areas that God perfects in us. Covenant & non- covenant relationships are vessels by which these are developed. Its people, we love and ones who don't care too much for us, that helps bring out of us what God has put in us. It's written "Iron sharpens Iron". When we are being sharpen it shouldn't feel like a sponge, blankets, or tissue; it's rough and sometimes painful. It sharpens us by tearing away at the dull edges. Glory to God, we become a tool fit for the MASTER'S use. There are times you may have questioned? Why so much pain, rejection, and heart-ache? God knows you are built to last. You are capable of withstanding the pressures of life and afflictions. "Many are the afflictions of the righteous but God delivers us out of them all!" What greater way to be developed than by the hand of the Almighty God. See when you are called, appointed, and chosen of God; He gives satan the orders to bring affliction, abandonment, and death to some things. But what's so sweet about HIM; this same God, FATHER, & LORD will cause it to cease and RESTORE YOU GREATER THAN BEFORE. ASK JOB!