KJV ORIGINAL
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
I'm going to take a third of them through some serious fire — not to destroy them, but to refine them like precious metals. Silver and gold have to go through intense heat to become pure, and that's what I'm doing with them. When they're going through it, they'll call out to me, and I'll actually listen. I'll look at them and say 'These are my people,' and they'll finally say back 'The Lord is my God.'
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Sometimes God uses the hardest seasons to make us into who we're supposed to be.
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