"Slag Pour"
What is slag?.. it is the stuff that comes to the surface during the gold refining process.
here it is being poured off where the gold remains in the vessel.what is done with the slag ...some throw it away... people try to find it on eBay and buy it.. its left out of the gold being considered of little value.....
there are small fragments of gold that sometimes get poured out with the slag...
a smelter did not usually keep it in the B.C. times.. but, some did , do..
but God,
He takes the slag and for some vessels...
made for His use...
God will pound that slag again. He wants all of it.
He doesnt throw away the slag or leave it there in a pile to waste.
He pounds it a second time...
the first time the mined gold was ground into powder
to be put in the fire (smelter's furnace)
and be melted.. at 1063 degrees Celsius. in a crucible...
the only earthen material able to withstand this process of refining gold
was white earth that resembled clay, called tasconium.
1063 Celsius.
man cannot stand next to that type of heat. the flesh would burn and melt
as he tried to stir the melting gold.
God kills the flesh in this refining process...
God tries our faith...faith is a gift from God, it is only in the spirit of a born again believer.
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire.. 1 Peter 1.7
God's Holy Spirit is one with the believer's spirit which has been made alive
by Holy Spirit ... only the very inward part.. the inner man.. the spirit of a man united with God
could stand this fire, this burning process, this refining...
to bring out the impurities... the slag. it comes to the top,
the gold sinks to the bottom, it is heavier.
this is that which is pure.
the genuine faith, more precious that gold.
God lets me know im being fired again.
these earthen pots made of tasconium were the only ones that could be used
for the gold refining process. the blast of air, the fire.. the intensely hot liquid inside.. the melted gold.
When the gold cools.. it is soft and pliable...
it was made for kings for jewelry, coins.. for the Romans,
Solomon's Temple was decorated with much fine gold.
God shapes it to whatever He chooses.
for whatever use He has in mind.
He stands by the smelting pot... the tasconium...
this earthen vessel with treasure in it.
He does not leave. does not take his eyes off me.
sometimes He peers in to me even more..searching my heart
and mind and spirit to see what is there...
to test my faith. to refine me. to mould me.
to burn out the impurities.
to shape me into a vessel fit for the Master's use.
He will not cast me away.
and He refines again that slag to get every ounce of gold out of it.
i wonder what He is making me into.
i want to be used...
i do not yet know what i will be or what i will look like.
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 1 Jn. 3.2
i just love Him. want to be used. i will submit.. wish i had understood sooner what was going on...
but this is His way.. not mine. He could have let me known sooner..or later...it is how He wanted it.
many impurities did my flesh have...and still has because of indwelling sin...but out of the burning He gets gold. He gets genuine faith more precious than gold.
and i get to be made more pure..and to be used by Him in some way. my heart's desire, longings is to be used
by Jesus, Father, Holy Spirit..to give God glory somehow by the work He does in me.. wrought in me..and the works which He will do through me to glorify Himself.
When He is done refining i will be approved by Him.
a vessel fit for the Master's use.
Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work. 2 Timothy 2.21
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