If you want something valuable to offer a King it won't come to you freely. I want to live a life that is a gift worthy of being offered up to the King. The only thing is, I can't get that life on my own. God has to do the refining. And boy has he been hard at work in me over the past year. It was hard, hurtful, and wonderful all at the same time! Its never easy to have to face our pain from our past and to recognize where we are not up to par presently. But, without this evaluation of life we continue pushing on day by day thinking we're doing ok, when we could be doing so much better.
Sometimes I can enter into a time of refining with joy, knowing that I will be a better person in the end. Other times God has to tie on a rope and drag me through. The cool thing is that in the end there is always a light, a joy, a "mountain top high" that comes in knowing that we are one step closer to being the perfect masterpiece God originally created us to be.
As I enter into my 6th day of my 22nd year of life I can smile and say, "I am blessed!" I feel complete, I know I'm loved unconditionally, and the joy of watching Jesus at work in my life is overflowing. After being robbed this summer I had a few needs to be able to start a new school year. My God was amazing, when I needed a blanket he sent 8, when I needed an alarm clock, lamp, and money for shoes he sent that too, but it didn't stop there. He continued to bless me with an amazing roommate, an ipod, a laptop, and a shark shaped cookie jar that makes noise :) things that I obviously didn't need. God does not only take us through the valley to be refined, he also pulls us back up. And he has done more than just restore me he has taken me beyond any joy I've known before.
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