𝒀𝑬𝑺, 𝒀𝑶𝑼’𝑳𝑳 𝑾𝑨𝑳𝑲 𝑻𝑯𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑮𝑯 𝑭𝑰𝑹𝑬.

It doesn’t make me justify why I should feel angry.
I’m hurt and I’m crying and I’m giving myself excuses why this person acted that way. I’m saying things might be wrong, I’m saying this person might be going through hard times, and before I know it I’m praying for this person. I’m praying for God to help this person.
I don’t need to know if the excuses are right or wrong, I’m just doing what keeps anger miles away. It’s more for me than the other person, sometimes. I’m just learning to bring love into everything at the end.

It’s not something I achieved myself. God renews my whole life, as long as I give His Spirit the chance to work His fruits in me. Believe me, it isn’t easy, because you’ll have to shed off everything that hinders growth and the power of God in your life.
I’ve once felt angry when I shouldn’t have, the anger was momentarily, yet on my way home I still felt the question in my Spirit, ‘did you really feel angry?’
I laughed all the way home, I didn’t know he’d catch the anger that happened and passed in just a matter of seconds.

When you give yourself to God for pruning. You’ll see yourself being tried by fire. You’ll see yourself trying to use human wisdom to judge why you’ve been asked to do what you ought to do.
I once used human wisdom to judge why I should apologise to someone I said hurtful things to. He said them first to me, and what if he deserved the truth I told him? Even though I felt the truth was laced with , because I had the chance to payback. Until the instruction came that I would have to text an apology to this person before leaving for vigil that evening. I stayed on the matter for some time, and then I decided to text this person. God gave me words. I cried when the person thought me a weakling for apologizing first, and threw the apology back at me, but I was grateful for the peace I felt after that. I was happy I obeyed the nudge of the Spirit.
It was a training ground for me, and I was comforted by the peace I felt in my Spirit.

Everyone of us as Christians will go through the refining fire. It means God will be intentional about everything concerning us. He’ll be interested in our habits, attitudes, desires, ways, thoughts and conversations, and he’ll take us through the refining fire to change what shouldn’t be in our lives.

Do not run from it.

God will burn humility into you, he’ll burn a rare kind of righteous fire into you. He’ll burn beauty into you. He’ll cause His love to burn in you.
The pruning process purifies you, and brings you out as pure gold. Don’t be afraid to ask God’s Spirit to prune you, to work out God’s Will in your life.

Getting rid of habits and traits we’ve grown to believe were right – but which were harmful to us – takes a lot of fire. Just like my case, God uses circumstances to build us into the royalty He created us to be and train us to stability.
Fire kills all impurities and leaves all that remains on fire for God’s glory. As long as it doesn’t give God Glory, God is burning them out.

I urge you to give the Holy Spirit the chance to prune you and burn out everything harmful to you growth. It could be your attitude, traits, habits, even some relationships.
Take some time to ask the Holy Spirit to prune you, and cooperate with him when it starts.

Don’t fight it.

The Holy Spirit won’t just make you a vessel, but a vessel for honourable purposes.

I urge you to give the Holy Spirit the chance to prune you and burn out everything harmful to you growth. It could be your attitude, traits, habits, even some relationships.

Quick question : Have you ever gone through a refining process? What did you experience? Please share.

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I love you, and God loves you even better.
Keep basking in God’s Love.

@just.idara