The blessings of being refined

 Read the words to the song below and absorb them.  Today has been a day of more reality then fantasy for me and my family.  It has been a good day, even though there has been more reality.  I was touched today when hearing this song and shared it with my friends on facebook, but also thought I would share it on my blog. We become diamonds through the "roughing" process.  May you be blessed through the words and the music.  -Tina 

There burns a fire with sacred heat

White hot with holy flame

And all who dare pass through its blaze

Will not emerge the same

Some as bronze, and some as silver

Some as gold, then with great skill

All are hammered by their sufferings

On the anvil of His will

Chorus:

The Refiner's fire

Has now become my souls desire

Purged and cleansed and purified

That the Lord be glorified

He is consuming my soul

Refining me, making me whole

No matter what I may lose

I choose the Refiner's fire

I'm learning now to trust His touch

To crave the fire's embrace

For though my past with sin was etched

His mercies did erase

Each time His purging cleanses deeper

I'm not sure that I'll survive

Yet the strength in growing weaker

Keeps my hungry soul alive

Chorus

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idA6fCAHVzs
 
James 1: 2-5 "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him."