Refiner's Fire
After reading through As Silver Refined by Kay Arthur, I cannot get that song out of my head... "Refiner's fire... My heart's one desire... Is to be holy... Set apart for you, my Master... Ready to do your will..." I hummed this all through the beginning of the book as she told a beautiful story of the ancient process of refining silver. I almost cried as I pictured God peering into my soul... looking for His reflection and most likely not yet finding it. Kay Arthur does a brilliant job of explaining God's true purpose in allowing us to go through struggles and difficult times. She is fully transparent in sharing her past and ways in which she did and didn't allow God's refining fire to work in her life. She also has a calm and thorough way of explaining each concept. I have never understood meekness and how important it is in the life of a Christian until now. Not only does she provide multiple examples of how Jesus portrayed meekness in His li...