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Our coward flesh shrinks from the flame

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When the Lord puts us in the furnace, we go in kicking and rebelling. Our coward flesh shrinks from the flame!

 But when we have been some time in the furnace and find that we cannot kick ourselves out, and that our very struggling only makes the coals burn more fiercely—at last, by the grace of God working in us, we begin to lie still.

It was so with Job. How he fought against God! How his carnal mind was stirred up in self-justification and rebellion until the Lord Himself appeared and spoke to his heart from heaven.

Then he came to this point, "I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You."