Refined

Do you ever wonder why things happen the way they do? One thing that really bugs me is when people say that things happen for a reason. I understand that thinking but to just say that things just happen because they do is wrong. With that kind of thinking, God is totally left out of the equation. If our God is sovereign over everything then that's means he has control of everthing, so things can't just happen because they want to. Things can only happen if God allows them to. I truly believe that God allows things to happen for many different reasons. I believe he allows thing to happen either because there's a purpose behind it or for a reason that he hasn't revealed to us yet.
In this season of my life, I've been thinking a lot about why am I going through the things that I am? I know that I'm not going through these things just because, I know that God has a plan and a purpose but to be honest with you I'm not sure why still. Maybe some of you might be feeling the same way? Yestarday I was having a day filled with a lot of why questions. As I was going through my day I believe that the Lord shared something to me which I also believe that it needs to be shared with anyone who is having a lot of why questions and doubts about why things might be so hard or difficult in this season of their lives. The word refine was what God spoke to me. It wasn't like a had a gnarly vision or hands layed on me and it wasn't a super spiritual experience, it was jsut God soft spoken voice which gave me a word. So I wasn't quite sure what to do with that so I prayed and did some reasearch. Dictionary.com defines the word refine as: to bring to a fine or pure state; free from impurities. This is exactly what I believe the Lord is doing to me during this season of my life. When I hear the word refine I think about how you refine silver or gold, to get all the impurities out it needs to be put through fire. I believe that's why we are experiencing this rough season in our lives. I believe with all my heart that God is putting us through the fire so that we can be refined. This is how God does things, don't believe me go to biblegateway.com type in the word refine and read all the different accounts of this.
I don't know why God does this, and a can't even say this is why you might be going through this because I'm not God. But like I said before I really believe that this is what God is doing in this rough season. So my prayer for us today is that we take the time to ask God to reveal to us why we are facing such tough times. I pray that he gives us the strength to trust and keeping moving foward no matter what answer he gives us. I pray that we have the strength and faith to just let God be God.