Earlier today on Bellshill Salvation Army Band’s Facebook page I shared the devotions I shared at band practice last Wednesday. I’d like to share those devotions with you tonight.
But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderer’s soap. He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;
Malachi 3:2-3
Our God is like a refiner’s fire. He refines, He purifies. He removes all the impurities. He burns them up and leaves the gold, or silver, intact.
God wants us to allow His fire to burn in us until it burns everything in us that is not of Him. Only then are we fully His, and can walk with Him.
And it shall come to pass in all the land, says the Lord, that two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But one-third shall be left in it: I will bring the one-third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, this is My people; And each one will say, the Lord is my God.
Zechariah 13:8-9
I pray that we may each reaffirm our desire to be holy, and to be ready to do whatever God asks of us, by allowing Him into every part of our lives.
Refiner's fire My heart's one desire Is to be holy Set apart for You, Lord I choose to be holy Set apart for You, my Master Ready to do Your will
Here’s Melbourne Staff Band playing ‘Refiner’s Fire’ from their CD ‘Battle Ready’.
The Distinct Dot 