At the last Expressions night at my local church, I started this painting. I had the impression of a wave of fire during Sunday worship a couple of weeks before, so I gave it a go. I feel that this is what God is doing among the church right now, and that it is a beautiful thing. The encouragement here is to embrace what God is doing, acknowledging the pain of His refinement and of our growth, but embracing it and enduring it nonetheless. He does beautiful things in our lives if we let Him lead us through the fire.
I heard someone recently say that God Himself is the fire... which brings an interesting dimension to His refinement of us.
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