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REFINE

Refine-To make pure by taking out waste substance.

       To improve,filter,clarity,sift,distill,fine tune.

Dross is useless,contaminating waste product that must be removed from metal in the refining process.It has no value and its presence in metal diminishes it's value.
For metal to have value ,it's dross must be removed.
Proverb:Take away the dross from the silver,and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
All humans are a mixture of precious metal and worthless dross.God is determined to remove the dross from our character.
Sometimes the furnace of affliction is required to perfect our character. Many will have to endure tribulation to have their dross removed.This is the refining process. It will be a fiery trial and difficult to endure.
2Tim:20 but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver,but also of wood and earth and some to honer and some to dishonor.
21:If a man therefore purge himself from these,he shall be a vessel unto honor.,sanctified and meant for the masters use,and prepared unto every good work.
22:Flee also youthful lust,but follow righteousness,faith,charity,peace and with them that are call in the Lord out of a pure heart.
James 4:8 God is able to discern the condition of the heart,whether they are refined silver or full of impurities.
Pro.17:3 the refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold:but the Lord trieth the hearts.
Isa 48:10 Behold,I have refine thee,but not with silver:I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

ZEC 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined,and will try them as gold is tried.They shall call on my name,and I will hear them.I will say' this is my people,and they shall say,The Lord is my God.

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"Though it may take quite a while to get back to where you want to be,just know and not doubt that God has a great feast waiting for you."

When one leaves home to travel or take a journey to places known or unknown there is always a plan to return or get back to where you where. There is no place like home.Sometimes you need a map but for the most part you know your way back.
This past year life's journey has been the most difficult storm  I've ever endured in my life.In this storm I have become a person I never thought I would be.I have become angry,frustrated and bitter to name a few of my taken on traits. I have taken my eyes off the light that I have always depended on to guide me through the many storms  of life, I have had to weathered.Being tossed to and fro has all but left me almost to a state of paralization,and dead to life itself.Not being able yo move on in life and,thinking ,"I'm just giving up.I 'm done."I can never be the person God created me  to be again, the person I use to be.This storm has taken me down.
Then I remembered a verse I gave to someone at a very uncertain time in their  life.
"God said you will walk through this fire unharmed your head shall not be burned,no water shall cover your head."
I've always maintained faith of a mustard seed and I know that 's why I am where I am today,still holding on by just a thread.Today I know God didn't let me perish in this storm for a reason,His arms are strong enough to carry me through the most difficult of times..But today I don't know how to get back,back to where I want to be.I know where back is..I have experienced what it is to be a child of God,I can all but see it,but I just don't know how to reach it.I don't know how to get back,back to being who God made me.Though it may be a while, I pray God will always be on the road not just leading me but carrying me,until I can get back.BACK TO BEING A TRUE CHILD OF GOD..

Though the journey's road is long and the weight of the burdon is heavy,?God is my strength and Jesus my redeemer.All  Glory to Him!I will make it back.....