“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”

Richard Nixon

Do you embrace that challenges and circumstances before as things that are happening ‘to you’ or ‘for you’?

If you view yourself as a blank of steel then you know that the entirety of life is the forge. There are periods of great heat and pressure, and their are times of cooling and rest. It is the continual working of the steel through these seasons that produces the final product. The final product is one of which the artisan is proud of and trusts to perform when called upon.

Life is all a matter of perspective and choice. Are you the steel or are you the impure metals that are removed during the refining and forging process? I am reminded of one of my favorite scripture verses as I meditate on this quote.

‘Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,’ Romans 5:3-4

Are you embracing the life that is happening for you or lamenting what is happening to you? Be steel, welcome the heat.