I was thinking about this in metals the other day- the way we shine and form our metal pieces isn't through gentle coaxing or rubbing them with plush cloths. We saw them apart, nearly melt them with heat, and bang on them with hammers. Then, to add insult to injury (or beauty to form) we sit there and make thousands of scratches on the surface with files and sandpaper and pushing hard on them with any abrasive thing we can find. But once you buff it, all that abuse and all those scratches turn info the most beautiful mirrored shine you've ever seen. And it got me to thinking about trusting in God's plan and purpose - He knows the end result He wants and is forming us for before He even begins, and all those dings and bangs and scratches not only make us shine and more beautiful, they also make us mirror Him.
"There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears." Phil 1:6, The Message
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