lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
And love that never fails
Let mercy fall on me
When everyone needs forgiveness
Kindness of the Saviour
The Hope of the nation
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything that i believe in
Now i surrender
Shine a light in and
let the whole world see
Singing, for the glory of the risen king
Jesus, Shine a light and
let the whole world see
Singing for the glory of the risen king
Sunday, October 22, 2006
-4:23 AM
Gold Refined
Just read an article on Gold. Its interesting to know that the gold that often catches our eyes, that we often look with eyes that sparkle, isn't actually all Gold by itself.
Refined gold is actually soft and pliable, it is free from corrosion or other substances. Does our gold jewellery means that it is fake? No! Just that gold is mixed with other metals such as copper, zinc or alloy, that makes the gold harden. The higher the percentage of other metals the harder the gold becomes.
Well, i shared this because it reflected very much of our hearts. Our hearts are orginally soft and pliable like pure gold. Soft and tender. But we have allowed hurts, resentment and bitterness into our lives causing anger, unforgiveness and resentment to harden our hearts. Making us suspicious of people, becoming judgemental of others, thinking we are more Godly, and becoming more insensitive towards others.
That hardens our heart!! What has become to the once soft and pliable heart? is all gone? No!! I read on...
Refining gold is grinded into a powder and mixing it with a substance called flux. The mixture is that place into the furnace and melted by intense heat. The gold which is heavier stays at the bottom, the other impurities are drawn to the flux and rise to the surface.
God refines us with affliction, trials and tribulations, the heat then seperates and surfaces out impurites such as unforgiveness, bitterness, resentment, anger, envy... and all that is not of God. In very nice moments everyone can be nice and loving... Even the most wicked man can be kind and generous under prospering circumstances. How many times have we heard people we know winning lottery or getting a job promotion wanting to give a treat to everyone? IT is under the heat of trials that our true character surfaces.
Indeed is true of this saying :"Everbody's normal until you get to know them."
It has been rather painful for me whenever i have to face the truth whenever i see weakness in my character. Being someone having the tendency often to be judgemental and easily getting intolerable... Working at SP services call centre has revealed alot of truth about my low tolerance level, when i often easily blow up when face with rude customers. One with low tolerance is often one who has a small heart. Last week alone i have let out some irritations and furstrations to people around me.
A man is measured, by placing a measuring tape round his heart.
How can one claim to be patient unless he is place under a circumstances where the people are simply testing him to his limit?
How can one claim to be loving unless he is face with someone he finds so hard to love?
I need to realize that i am no better then anyone else.
I need to see people as the Lord sees them and not as the world sees.
I need to learn to accept differences, that leads them to be different from me as well
Hurting people hurts people.
Lord, how i long to be more like You! Facing the truth of oneself is painful, only because those things make me feel so unlike my Father. Break my callousness, help me to love them like you do. Enlarge my heart to love and accept those i find it so hard to. Help me to accept the differences, for Lord i'm not better then anyone along my way.
Who am I, that the eyes that see my sins, would look on me with Love and watch me rise again. For its not because of who i am but because of who you are. Then i'll see beyond my calvary one day and i will be complete in you.
