The Hammering Process

“He put on righteousness like a breastplate,
and the helmet of salvation on his head…” Isaiah 59:17

The same breastplate I wear as a believer is the same worn by God, righteousness. And the same helmet is worn by us both, salvation. God has quite literally dressed me in his armor… For the sake of his praise he has done this.

We must comprehend that God is forging us into the image of his Son. Though the hammering process is suffering and the furnace is despicably hot he is refining us. Eventually all pain will stop for the need to refine will be over, and someday the hammer’s thud against our heart will be a distance memory.

But while the process continues we bless the hand that renews us. For the same hand that wields the hammer bears the scares we should forever bear.