Furnace Of Affliction
The Furnace of Affliction
In other words he was showing his submission to the king or humbling himself before a king. This passage was written by Solomon during a time when the Old Persian language would have had the strongest influence on the Hebrew language. King Solomon had a detachment of twenty warriors surround him as his personal body guards. These were the best warriors, the most dedicated warriors of the land who would not hesitate to take bullet or arrow in this case for his king.
See I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah NIV. God does not refine His children in a literal furnace of . The Furnace of Affliction! William Nicholson and Milburn Cockrell. "Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction!.
When one entered into such direct service of a king he would surrender everything he had, his very life to the king. I once heard a soldier in one of our elite special forces units respond to a question that asked if he was married. I read about the training of our Navy Seals.
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If they feel they can no longer endure the intense training they can ring a bell, pack up and leave, no questions asked. Many do, many are called, but few make it through the entire training without ringing that bell. So close to the finish but their bodies just could not be pushed any further. God will allow us to go through affliction, but the good kind, the kind that will strip us of all our trust in ourselves, of all our personal agendas so that the world can see that our trust is in God alone.
As I sit here and write this I reflect on five of the most painful, most difficult periods of my life. Times when well-meaning Christians would accuse me of not trusting God, that if I really trusted Him I would not have had to endure such affliction. I look back on those times and I thank God for them, no I praise and rejoice in Him for those afflictions.
He has a furnace of another sort that accomplishes His refining process. It is the furnace of affliction. I imagine it has its origins in the description of a difficult passage on a vessel at sea.
It is a vessel of no escape on which one is transported from one port to another. During such a voyage, you like where you are going, but you do not like the process of getting there! Likewise, a furnace is a place of no escape.
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There is no interior release handle, so you might as well be refined as quickly as possible. I believe with all my heart that God is more concerned with our condition than our comfort.
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