“Oh Lord, we often question ourselves to know whether we have real faith in Jesus Christ our Lord, and we will now pray asking you to search us, and try us and see that we are really trusting in him; and if we are, Lord increase our faith. But if we have merely a faith in name, rid us from the counterfeit, and give us yet the real, precious gold, which wisdom alone can furnish.

Oh, for a humble and sincere faith in our divine Lord. Lord, if it is necessary to break our hearts in order that we may have it, then let them be broken. If we have to unlearn a thousand things to learn the sweet secret of faith in him, let us become fools that we may be wise, only bring us surely and really to stand upon the Rock of Ages—so to stand there as never to fall, but to be kept by the power of God, through faith, unto salvation.”

The Bible talks about faith that is tested by fire like gold (1 Peter 1:7). I’ve posted this before, but I love the idea that a gold refiner knows that the gold is pure when he can see his reflection in it. That’s how it will be for us — one day God will see His reflection in us and so will other people. And every bit of the fiery trial will have been worth it for that moment.

Lord, do whatever it takes for your reflection to be seen in your people — in me.