Potholes or luminescence, it’s all in the prayer.

Thursday December 14th Malachi 3: 2 But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire or a launderer's soap. 3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. When you refine gold or silver, it requires a bit of heat. In the process the impurities separate out from the metal and the purity and beauty of it can shine. When it is our heart that is refined, it also requires a bit of heat. No one said the life of a follower of God was easy or without difficulties. Without prayer the difficulties produce only heat and tear up the road to the heart, hence the potholes. With prayer, the heat only gets the heart to glow with the purity of God’s grace. It is what God sees in you and why God loves you. It is what others see that draws them to a God life of prayer. Potholes or luminescence, it’s all in the prayer.