Refiner’s Fire
Baby Girl,
You woke up with a song in your heart. What were the lines you were singing?
Purify my heart, let me be as gold
and precious silver...
Refiner’s fire, my heart's one desire
is to be Holy, set apart for you, LORD.
I choose to be holy,
set apart for You, my Master,
ready to do Your will.
Do you know what a refiner's fire means?
When someone is refining gold or silver in the fire, don't they melt it down in a pot until it is liquid and then, as the impurities come to the surface, the refiner - the person responsible for refining the gold or silver - skims the impurities out until they look in the liquid metal and it's so clean and pure they can see their reflection in it?
Watch a video on the process and tell Me about it.
First, the silver must be mined. Silver doesn't start out silver; it starts off a charcoal gray when they chip it off the cave.
I didn't know that.
When a machine tells them there is silver in the wall, they drill a hole and put sticks of dynamite in the wall and blow it up. Chunks of rock, called “ore,” are taken out of the cave and blended.
The ore first goes into the primary crusher, which uses steel teeth to break up the big chunks into smaller pieces. Those pieces drop into grates below into a second crusher, which breaks them down into even smaller pieces. Those then go into a pulverizer that crushes them into tiny pieces.
Those tiny pieces go into a ball mill that looks like a concrete mixer to be tossed. Steel balls in the mixer bounce around, grinding the tiny pieces into powder. Water flushes the silver rich powder out of the cylinder and into large tanks where the water is kept moving.
To separate and dissolve the metals, acid is poured into the tanks. Filter plates are treated so they will attract silver molecules. As the water moves through, the parts containing silver are trapped on the filters in a layer of black sludge, called “silver precipitate.” It's made of about 50% silver and 50% waste.
Little One... your heart is at the silver precipitate part of the process. You have a ways to go. Keep watching because I want you to be aware of where we're heading if you choose to continue in this refining process.
To separate the silver from the waste, they first dry the precipitate in a gas furnace for a couple of hours. Workers then put the silver in a fire with chemicals that keep the silver from burning off. Approximately four hours later, the silver and waste have separated and melted. Workers pour them into bar-shaped molds.
Since the silver is heavier, it settles at the bottom. Workers skim off the waste floating on top. In less than five minutes, the molten silver cools and hardens, enabling workers to extract what is now a silver bar.
The silver bars are shipped to a refiner where the silver is weighed and mixed with a powder, called “flux.” This combination is then put into a cylinder, called a “crucible.”
That sounds like “crucified.” I wonder if the root of those words means the same thing… I googled. No, crucible and crucifix do not come from the same root word. Crucible comes from the medieval Latin word “crucibulum,“ which means, "earthen pot for melting metals," and crucifix comes from the Latin words “crux,” meaning "cross," and '“figere,” which means “fasten.”
I think I'm getting ahead of you trying to figure out the point you're going to make... I'll finish the video now.
The crucible can take the heat better than the metal it contains so the crucible is placed in the fire.
Little One, I am the crucible. The ONLY WAY to continue this refining process from this point forward is to remain in Me.
I googled what happens if silver powder is put in a fire without a crucible: if the silver melts and spreads, it can be difficult to recover especially if it mixes with other materials.
If you want a pure heart, Little One, you MUST be set apart. You cannot enter the refiner’s fire without Me and come out of the fire as pure silver, useful for Kingdom purposes.
The molten liquid is poured from the crucible into a mold. The flux fuses to the undesired matter to form a slag, which is lighter than the precious metal, so it naturally floats to the top of the mold. You can easily separate the metal button from the precious metal.
The metal is then melted again and cooled into little bits the size of BBs. Those bits are put into a solution of acid that dissolves the metal into a liquid form. Chemists add other chemicals to cause a reaction to help them extract the exact metals they are looking for and you end up with an absolutely pure piece of gold, silver, platinum, or palladium.
Wow. I had NO idea there were that many steps. I always pictured the process of silver being heated it up, scrape off impurities, and keep it in the fire until it's pure. That's a lot of heating up and being cooled off and repeating, and each step of the process looks different than the one before.
Blown up, ground up, crushed, pulverized, heated up, flushed out, melted down, cooled, scraped, placed in the fire, melted, scraped, melted, dissolved in acid, and finally, extracted as pure precious metal. This is what your song implies. THIS is the process of the refiner's fire. There are still many impurities in your thought life and actions.
I think when I'm poured into the mold, I tend to think I've arrived and really I'm just cooling off from the last heating process so you can scrape more off, aren't I?
Yes, and every time, you're getting a little closer to reflecting Me in this life.
Will I ever arrive? Like in this lifetime, will I become pure silver? In recovery, I learned the principle that we never arrive, not until we die.
Look up that verse that just came to mind.
I'm glad you read it in context.
Matthew 5:43-48: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”
You SHALL be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
You SHALL, Little One.
LOVE Me.
LOVE the people around you.
Loving the people around you as I LOVE the people around you IS the process of the refiner's fire.
You do not LOVE perfectly but, with every new level, you are being perfected in LOVE. Allow Me to continue this work in you until, just like silver, one day, you SHALL perfectly reflect My LOVE in this world.
Back to bed Little One. Sweet dreams.
LOVE,
Daddy
Matthew 5:48