Mal 3:2,3

"...He will sit as a refiner's fire or launderer's silver..." -- Malachi 3:2,3.

All of us begin our lives dirty, and sinful. No one is able to escape the second death without Jesus. The image of Christ mining us from the ground and being refined, having all the impurities being taken away has been a breath-taking portrayal of Jesus in my mind. The process of refining silver, or any metal is a lengthly process for the metal to become pure. Christ who has begun to refine you will refine you to completion (Php 1:6). As Christians we can't refine ourselves because we are the ones who are in need of the refining. Jesus is the only one who has the power to refine you to the purest state. We know refining takes a lot of heat, please let Jesus refine you, so you are not burned in the fire forever.

Uplifting Conversation

This is a conversation I had with a friend about stress and teens. I am "A" and "B" is my

friend. They didn't want their name in the blog so their "B". Thanks for viewing my blog, it really means a lot.

A:Where is the fun in life?

B:Weekends..Christmas and other breaks haha.

A:No wander kids turn to drugs and crap, that don't have anything to do.

B:For real

A:Makes complete sense now if we didn't have such a boring time at school kids would

be drug free. "GET RID OF SCHOOL" haha lol

A:Hahaha so true!

B:We just need to help kids stay more relaxed and not have drama and we are drugfree.

A:Yeah..they do it when they're stressed and just wanna party

B:I was taking to a girl today and she said she parties to celebrate life. Which is not bad

just wrong the ways they celebrate life.

A:Really? Yeah it's good to celebrate..just not like that

B:Need a different way to celebrate

A:Yeah like worship or prayer.

B: Yeah love worship. Or even just hanging with friends..better than drinking or doing

drugs.

A: Yeah well we have the solution we need to life it and put it to practice.

B:Yeah..like how you worded that

A:Thanks. I told my teachers to take it easy, because they stress us out so much.

B:That's good!

A:They say stuff to motivate us but it stresses us and makes us turn to other things, sin

is just stress being released.

B:Yeah, yeah things teachers say make me think a lot and stresses me out. Nothing

good comes from stress

A:Like stressing does not do anything for you.

B:Oh yeah..definitely agree

A:So the teachers are the cause of the drugs and we are the effect.

B:But is it really right to blame the teachers they are just doing their job and teaching us

A:Yeah, but put less stress on the kids.

B:Yeah, you're right.

A:We will see, I am going to see what one of my teachers thinks about it. To see if they

believe the same thing as you and me.

B:You should, that would be awesome

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