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December 2nd 2008

The blacksmith puts the rod in the fire, places it on the anvil, and pounds! The rod does what the blacksmith causes it to do.  Its shape is solely determined by the the heat of the fire, the angle at which it is held, and how hard it is hit.  It can not say "no!", it cannot develop its own plan, be independent, or even rebel against the blacksmith.  The rod has no choice but to become the thing the blacksmith decides to make it into.  The fire is hot, the anvil hard, and the hammer shaping.

When God places us on His anvil the fire is the trials we go through.  He is then able to take us and place us on His anvil.  He is in the business of molding and refining us after all (Isiah 64:8 , Psalm 66:10 ).  However unlike a blacksmiths rod we have the ability to react, to choose a response to what God is doing.  The ability to do so is given to us by Him.  Every time we are placed on Gods anvil we are molded, our reaction to God can make the hammer heavy or light.  When we want to be molded, the hammer seems much lighter.

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