As I was meditating on how God purifies people, sanctifies them, matures them, and leads them to be what he wants him to be, I was thinking in terms of sanding off rough edges. That is not the analogy that God gives us in scripture. He tends to talk about refining. He’s thinking in terms of making gold and silver pure.
God talks about the dross being removed. I am not a metallurgist. I am not an expert in any way in the process of making pure steel, gold, silver, or any other metal. All I have is kind of general ideas I picked up here and there, some of them from the Bible.
I have this picture of ore being refined to a certain point, and then in order to really purify it you have to make it even hotter and let it sit over a fire for a long time. The picture I get is that the dross, impurities, slowly rise to the surface. As the metal is continually heated and the dross continues to rise, the worker will skim off the impurities from the top and discard them. He will then continue to refine the metal.
My thoughts at this point went to politics rather than theology. I was thinking about our hopes that Donald Trump would be elected. One of the common topics of discussion is that he has to get rid of the people who have been polluting our government for so long. We know that the top ranks are corrupt beyond imagination. We know there is a self-centered seeking for power in riches that is destroying the liberties of the masses. One of the ways to reform is to get rid of the impurities.
I think it’s interesting that there seems to be a parallel between purifying gold and getting the government into the condition it needs to be. It seems that the pollution, the corruption, the dross rises to the top. At that point, it must be skimmed off.
I would urge President Trump if elected to skim off the dross. At this point it has been very consistent in rising. Skim it off. Wait a while. Skim it off again. And as the dandruff shampoo label tells us, repeat.
There will probably be a steady supply of impurities rising to the top. Keeps skimming.
homo unius libri
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Opus 2024-357: Removing the Dross
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