In the production of building materials, regardless of their use or chemical characteristics, a refinement process is required.  If the producer is slack in his application of refinement the product will fail.  The negligence of the producer will be painfully obvious, and quite often at the most inopportune moment. 

We are the producers of our own character.  The blame and shame of our own failure belongs to us.  What is hidden will be made known, despite our ingenuity to sell a defective product.

The diligence to pursue holiness is a mutual work between God’s willingness to give and our willingness to receive.  “Do not be deceived.  A man reaps what he sows.”

By His Grace