Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Psalm 51:10-19
by: Susan Bond.
I was praying for a pure heart (Matthew 5:8) when I thought of the refiner’s fire (Malachi 3:2-4:2). I drew back, not wanting to go through fire. Then, I remembered that because Jesus went through the fiery trial of crucifixion, exchanging places with me so that his Father could not even look upon him, I am already seen as pure (2 Corinthians 5:21).
While it is up to me to guard my heart daily, repenting of sin, I don’t have to consider myself a “Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God” (Title of a sermon by Jonathan Edwards), but rather a sheep held in the arms of my Shepherd who will carry me through every fire.