YOUR WORTH DETERMINES YOUR PAIN 6; THE HEAT

"Our trials, our sorrows, and our griefs develop us." - Orison Swett Marden

 

Going through some breaking, the furnace and the process of refining are not easy experiences. Like all other useful products today, the process is inevitable. It is a requirement. After gold has gone through the Breaking, the Crucible and the Dross has been expelled, it's exposed again to ; THE HEAT.

The refiner raises the temperature to higher degrees. After the painstaking efforts of skimming off the impurities. He turns up the heat, and places the crucible back into the blistering furnace. Again and again - about seven times more, we are told - as more impurities rise to the surface. An expert refiner knows that only certain impurities are released at certain temperatures. Different impurities require varying degrees of heat to expel them from gold.

YOUR WORTH DETERMINES YOUR PAIN 3; THE CRUCIBLE

"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of." - Charles Spurgeon

Most crucibles are made of graphite. This affords them the ability to withstand enormous heat; melting any material inside. After the gold has been taken through the painful process of breaking, by the refiner, the next stage is; The Crucible

The refiner puts the broken, crushed, unrefined ore into a “crucible”; a fireproof MELTING pot able to withstand great heat. The crucible goes into the furnace - a device used for extraction of metals from ore in refineries, and chemical plants. It's a heat source - which has enough heat necessary for expulsion of other metallic impurities undermining the quality of the gold.

Just as the furnace is used to purify gold in the crucible, God, our refiner, uses heat to purify us. You'll note that, the refiner doesn't just throw the gold into the furnace. He