Take Away The Dross
Take Away The Dross
Proverbs 25:4; Isaiah 1:25.
Dross is simply an impurity that keeps a substance or someone in a perpetual state of uselessness despite having a glorious potential. Many Christians are not able to become useful entities to God because of the presence of dross in their lives. These drosses keep us away from becoming the very best that God designed us to be. Thus, we live only as shadows of our true self, without achieving the glorious purpose of God for our life, family and our generation.
Impurities build up in an enabling environment of gross abandonment, neglect, and lack of intentional action taken to prevent or quickly deal with it. A shiny substance left unpolished for a long time will build up rust and become covered by impurities to the extent that it becomes unrecognizable and grossly identified as dirt, thereby at risk of being thrown out as garbage. The same applies to Christians when they neglect the grace of God and do not constantly oil the precious gift of eternal life delivered to us at the cross.
Today, God is interested in restoring many whose lives have become mere relics and a shadow of the true potentials of God’s grace over their lives. He said in Isaiah 1:25 “I will thoroughly purge away your dross”.
God’s Spirit expressed through His word remains the prime agent of purification in our lives- Malachi 3:3. He seeks to sit upon our lives to discover those filths lodged in the innermost corners of our heart and purge us- Psalm 139:23,24.
Meditation
1 One thing I of the Lord desire,
For all my path hath miry been,
Be it by water or by fire,
O make me clean, O make me clean.
Refrain:
So wash me, Thou, without, within,
Or purge with fire, if that must be,
No matter how, if only sin
Die out in me, die out in me.
2 If clearer vision Thou impart,
Grateful and glad my soul shall be;
But yet to have a purer heart
Is more to me, Is more to me. [Refrain]
3 Yea, only as this heart is clean
May larger vision yet be mine,
For mirrored in its depths are seen
The things divine, the things divine. [Refrain]
4 I watch to shun the miry way,
And stanch the springs of guilty thought;
But, watch and struggle as I may,
Pure I am not, Pure I am not. [Refrain]
