Malachi 3:2-3
But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. 3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.
Jesus will refine and purify His people. Fire refines and purifies by removing everything that cannot endure it's heat. Fire consumes chaff and the fuller's soap destroys impurities.
Proverbs 27:21
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise.
Kind words often expose as violently as fire. When God says that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, it exposes the hearts of its hearers. Those who love Him are refined by the heat of that proclamation to greater devotion and good works while others are consumed by what they heard as a license to serve their own appetites more ferociously. A man is tested by his response to kindness.
Romans 2:4
Do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
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