God's Refining Fire

O Lord, we pray "Thy will be done" or "Master, here am I."

We pray You'd do a mighty work That to the flesh we'd die. 

And when the answer comes to us In form of trial and test,

We fail to see Your loving hand, Refining fire is best. 

 

God's refining fire, God's refining fire, 

May it purge me now and make of me what You require.

O Lord, feed the fire, Your refining fire.

Now as gold and silver must be tried, 

Lord, may my heart be purified. 

Lord, send Your great refining fire.

 

That I may stand when You appear, Abide till Your return. 

O place the fire perfectly That all the dross be burned.

Whether furnace of affliction, Lord, Or unfulfilled desire, 

Bring forth a vessel pure and tried By Your refining fire. 

 

God's refining fire, God's refining fire, 

May it purge me now and make of me what You require.

O Lord, feed the fire, Your refining fire.

Now as gold and silver must be tried, 

Lord, may my heart be purified. 

Lord, send Your great refining fire.

 

This is the song that I played this morning for offertory. I wasn't planning on playing it, but the Lord wanted me to. I planned on playing O Worship the King, when I was finishing the prelude, I looked at the music that I was playing and realized that I was playing my supposed offertory!!!! So then when it came to the offertory I thought; "Lord, what am I going to play?" All of the sudden, the song God's Refining Fire started playing through my head...I thought; "Ok, Lord I haven't practiced it in a while, but I'm going to play it." As I was playing the song, it made me think of how I need to trust God to guide and direct in my life even in the little things ie: Sunday morning offertories ;).

 

How often do we sit back and say; "Ok God, I know this is a little thing, but I want You to make the decision." Or, do we just go ahead and do what we want without thinking and asking God?