Refinement

Come to me, for I am the resource for all your needs. I have promised that I will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you can resist. You are in need of correction that you may be refined into my image, but I will not correct you beyond what you can endure. I do not willingly grieve or crush my children. I would rather that you would fall on the rock and be broken, than to have it fall on you. Yet even in this I know what you are able to bear and will not exceed it. Are you encouraged to find you can endure more than you thought? No correction is a cause for joy, but it is temporary, and afterwards yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness.