Test Me

Jesus, When you test me in the furnace of affliction,
May the impurities all be burned away.
Make me as pure as silver and gold.

When I am in the flames of testing;
As steel is hardened in the furnace,
May my life become so resilient.

May I accept the fire as refining and not torture,
As discipline and not punishment,
As freeing and not imprisonment.

May I always remember,
Your Spirit is there in the midst of the Heat,
So...., I accept and submit to your refining.

Not My Will...

O Lord, you never betray us!

Even when circumstance goes in contrary direction.

You are at work;

Teaching us, guiding us, growing us, molding us, refining us.

You are perfecting us;

If we allow you to take us through the circumstance.



Let me learn not to feel betrayed by circumstance,

or fight against it,

or finally desert it.

Help me understand why circumstance is there:

Fulfilling your work, your plan for my life.

As Jesus prayed....

Not my will but yours be done.