At my private Christian school, we had a spiritual emphasis week during the week: October 31, 2011- November 4, 2011. A spiritual emphasis week is a week that we have chapel everyday, and it's a big emphasis on a certain topic each year. Our school usually has these weeks twice a year. This year the week is about being transformed, not conformed. The speaker, Brent, challenges us everyday to stop living out the good and evil and just live out the life of Christ. One of my favorite things we have talked about this week is the stuff we went over the first day, being refined. God is like a gold or silver refiner, he takes us out of the mood and dirt no matter how deep He has to dig, and makes us as good and as pure as a solid piece of gold or a glittery diamond. The refining process of Christianity, just like the refining process of gold and silver, is a very long and rough process. Each part of the process is going to hurt. The processes are: Being taken out of the mud, being cleaned off, being heated up to a liquid, being boiled and the gunk scraped off the top, being boiled with lead to suck out all of the impurities, and last being hammered and shaped into what God wants us to be. This process will require a lot of heart, dedication, and time, but it is something all Christians need to go through at some point. I love Mr. Brent's analogies and his whole speech on this day. I think that what he said applies to me, I just need to let the Lord refine me, just as a lot of Christians do. Being refined isn't something that will be easy, but with God we can all make it through.
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