DAY 35 – THE SECRET OF BUYING GOLD
Christlikeness is a gold that enriches our souls as children of God. Christlikeness is a gold of originally produced godly character. It is our desire to be transformed into the likeness of Jesus ,but there is no alternative or cheap way to this. Godly character is not given to us,we buy it not with a price of earthly measure but yet a steep price
The process of buying gold is being described below; “Gold is actually refined by fire”. The fire part comes first and this implies that trials, persecution,troubles, temptations, afflictions, calamity or distress. In the last days there is coming a great escalation of fire. There’s no need to start checking or imagining whether you’re in the fire. When the fire hits your life, you will definitely feel and know it! You will lose control, your pain levels will reach its peak and your desperation for God will intensify. Your flesh will want to give up, but since your spirit is alive to the beauties of Christ, the fire will be used by God to fashion you into the face of Christ like never before. Instead of giving up, you’ll run even harder! Your primary source of sanity in the midst of the fire will be your secret place, where the Spirit will soothe your tortured soul and the word will sustain your hope and faith.
As you proceed into the word whilst in this fire, the word will begin to read your mail. It will find you and locate you where you’re exactly and you will begin to see areas of your heart and soul that have been out of alignment with God’s ways and will for your life. As those things are being unveiled , you are so desperate for God,with great joy,you venture into business with him , repenting and considering deeply how to change and adopt new patterns of thought, behavior, and motive. As you embrace the changes that God’s Spirit inspires within you, you are actually becoming more like Jesus. Or to put it another way, you’re buying gold in the fire.
The steep price tag of buy this Gold is “endurance”. We continuing to press into God in the secret place even when we are weary implies that indirectly or directly we will buy this gold. We will be changed into the image of Christ in the midst of the fire. When you’re in the fire, it’s key to know how you come to the word. The fire has a way of making you a doer of the word and not just a hearer only. You become desperate for a word from God, and then when it comes, you attach to it like it’s the only source to your life .When the fire hits your life, your concern is not whether your neighbor is looking into the mirror of the word and then forgetting about it; your concern is primarily that you look into the word and not forget. But then something amazing happens. When you share with others how the word mirrored your own shortcomings and how you became a doer of the word in the midst of the fire, your witness will have a profound effect upon your hearers. They will be fed by your witness of what has fed you..
The secret place is the only way you’ll survive the fire. And the secret of the thing is, God’s word flowing into you will not only enable you to survive, it will empower you to overcome and buy eternal treasure. The secret place is like God’s ATM, the place where you gain access to the hidden and mystery things of heaven. God has great understanding into this powerful little secret, which is why He is merciful enough to send the fire in answer to your prayers. If you will cry to Him from the depths of your being, He will send exactly the right kind of fire you need at this moment in your journey. This fire will press you into the mirror of His word that you might begin to buy the gold of “refined character.”
