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I will raise my fist against you. I will melt you down and skim off your slag. I will remove all your impurities. 

Isaiah 1:25

Gold Faith

1 Peter 1:3-7 (TLB)

All honor to God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; for it is his boundless mercy that has given us the privilege of being born again so that we are now members of God’s own family. Now we live in the hope of eternal life because Christ rose again from the dead. (1 Peter 1:1-3)

• And God has reserved for his children the priceless gift of eternal life; it is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. (1 Peter 1:4)
• And God, in his mighty power, will make sure that you get there safely to receive it because you are trusting him. It will be yours in that coming last day for all to see. (1 Peter 1:5)

So 

• truly glad! There is wonderful joy ahead, even though the going is rough for a while down here. (1 Peter 1:6)

These trials are only 

• to test your faith, 
• to see whether or not it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests gold and purifies it—and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold; 

So 

• if your faith remains strong after being tried in the test tube of fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day of his return. (1 Peter 1:7)

The heat isn’t so bad with results and promises like this!

The LORD’s Future Reign

I can’t wait for this:

The LORD will mediate between nations and will settle international disputes. They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore.
Isaiah 2:4

Allow God to turn up the heat when it comes to refining my faith.