For you, God, tested us; You refined us as silver is refined…you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us to a place of abundance.
Psalm 66:10,12
I cried when I first read this passage of scripture – cried for those who could relate to the feeling of being put through fire and water – the feeling of being refined. For the majority of my life as a teen and even the early years of my college experience, I felt like God was testing me. But I didn’t even have the words to process that feeling.
I shared with the BGWP community earlier this year that God promised me abundance in 2017 and I’m more than ready to claim all that He has for me. But the process to getting here was not easy – it involved bad friendships, walls being built up and broken back down, hearts broken, it involved obedience and transparency, it took moving 11 hours from my college town and 8 hours from my family and of course, as is our theme for this month, it required faith. Faith that whatever current part of my journey I was on was intentional, that it wouldn’t be wasted on me and that when I finally made it to the other side, I would be happy to have endured what I endured because it would be a part of me.
This week’s post is short because I only care about you grasping one thing – do not despise your journey. Rest assured that no matter where you are today, you are exactly where you’re supposed to be. Don’t get so caught up in your destination that you miss your opportunity to grow and prepare for the abundance that’s coming your way. Ask God, “what would you have me to take from this season?” “How is this preparing me?” and I assure you, you won’t walk out of the fire the same way you entered in. Trust the process my friend.
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