My husband Mike loves a reality TV show on the History Channel called "Forged in Fire."
The show is about a blacksmith competition.
At the beginning of the show, the judges tell each
blacksmith what type of weapon they are to make.
Then the blacksmiths go to work. They sketch out their unique vision of the weapon they will create, following the judges' guidelines.
Next, they are given a hunk of metal. They assess the metal carefully to determine what they've got to work
with.
Then, they subject that metal to intense heat, pounding it and shaping it until it becomes the weapon they envisioned.
The blacksmiths’ skill is amazing.
We were watching the show the other night and the
Lord spoke to me in the middle of it.
This 1 principle makes the difference in how you respond to life's "heat"; whether you remain like a useless hunk of metal or become a finely tuned weapon, fit for the Master's use: