August 14

August 14


God’s Reflection in Us



When God sees His own reflection in us he is able to fashion a thing of greater beauty in our character.


Proverbs 17
3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.

The artisan of gold and silver bends over the crucible in which there is molten metal from which the dross has already been skimmed. The heat enlightens his face and he looks for his own image reflected back at him. When he sees it he knows the metal is ready to be poured and fashioned into a form useful to him. So it is with the Lord. He looks for his image in us in every trying circumstance. When he sees Himself reflected back he is able to fashion us into a thing of greater beauty.