“Take away the Dross...”
One dictionary’s definition of the word dross is: Waste or impure matter; the scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation; worthless, commonplace, or trivial matter.
Amy Carmichael once asked a refiner how he knew when the gold was purified. He answered, “When I can see my face in it.” Oh, child of God, should we then hate the fire that purifies the gold?
Every pain He inflicts is to lessen self’s hold on us and make us more like Him. Peter was unaware when standing at the fire that the Lord would use His own fire as a means to burn away the dross in his life.
The true worth of a saint lies beneath his or her external life. It was when God stripped Job of everything he held dear, his crown, health, wife, children, friends, finances, and reputation, you see the real value of the man.
And suffering Job understood this. Listen to him cry out from the midst of God’s fiery trial. “[When] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” And so will it be with you, my dear hurting brother and sister.
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