Psalm 66: 10
For you, O God tested
us; you refined us like silver.
The psalmist enters into a time of reflection and began to
confess of God’s goodness and mercies. He recollects the good times and the bad
times that He had experienced with God. Earlier in the beginning of the psalm
he described the goodness that God had shown to him.
Then he began to also reflect the chastisement of God to
bring to mind the need to repent and be righteous before God. This the psalmist
compares that when God chastises it is like the refining fire that burns away
the dross and other impurities in precious metal like gold and silver.
This normally is a refinement that God uses to prepare us for
greater abundance. Therefore when at times we are going through difficult
times, when men are coming against us, it is a time for us to humble ourselves
and to surrender to God who will take care of our situation and reward us when
all the purification had ended.
In verse 12 the psalmist wrote; You let men ride over our heads, we went through fire and water, but
you brought us to a place of abundance. The way that God works sometimes
amazes us but even when things seem to go against us, it may be God who is
preparing us for a time of great abundance of His blessings.
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