What Is Your Melting Point? Part 1

Have you ever had a meltdown?  Think about it.  Do you need melting down, and if so, what is your melting point?

Jeremiah 9: ⁶ Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord. ⁷ Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

We’ve all had the flu at some time or another.  When the temperature is taken, the thermometer registers high, but we’re freezing.  At some point we feel like we’ll melt.  Everything has a melting point.  A coin was in a raw metal condition and heated to the point of melting.  The temperature cools so that it becomes solid again, yet in a meaningful and valuable shape.  The state of the element was changed by it being melted, then molded.

So what is the problem?  Verses 4-6 tell us that deceit is the problem.  The people couldn’t trust each other because they were not honest with God.  Israel’s sin was pretense.  They were not honest with God about their spiritual condition.  Through deceit they refuse to know me.  They were used to their backslidden condition.  How did they get that way?  The same way the coin did.  In a molten condition, the coin was pliable.  We are too.  God doesn’t want us hard, cold, and unmold-able.

Romans 12:1-2 shows us God’s goal for us.  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.  God wants to work and shape us into what he wants.  Before that can happen, we must be at the melting point.  That is not our natural condition.

A coin is cold and hard.  In a workable state it is liquid metal.  Through cooling and stamping processes it becomes a coin.  If we’re willing to reach a boiling point, the only way to do so is to deal with the coldness and hardness of our heart and soul.  We are hesitant to be honest with God. We get in a self-satisfied state.  It happens because of pride and worldliness.  We’re programmed and indoctrinated by the world.  The devil is behind it all.  We either let the devil mold us or be honest with God and let Him mold us.  It’s better to be in the will of God.

How much does it take to move the cold out?  How hot does it have to be for us to melt?  Our melting point to God’s will is higher than our melting point toward the devil.  It is easier to conform to the world and the flesh and harder to do what God wants.  To be what He wants takes a higher melting point.

Rigidity means that something won’t give; it won’t bend.  We should be like a fabric bookmarker in God’s hands—pliable.  We tend to stiffen up.  The Lord called Israel stiff necked.  It’s a sign of a heart that is cold and hard.  That’s what the devil wants.  Every sinful group stands up for what they believe.  When we try to stand and get questioned, we allow ourselves to be knocked down.  This is when we need rigidity in the Lord to stand tall.  The book of Corinthians tells us to be steadfast and unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

We have to deal with our spiritual life.  Think about how it is between you and God.  See what’s real and what’s fake.  It’s time to reach the melting point.  Different elements have different melting points.  Ours depends on what God wants to mold us into.  We don’t have to put much effort into being what we shouldn’t.  When we got saved, the old mold of our Adam nature was put into the background, but if we don’t let God mold us, it will take back over.

Long before we show symptoms of a problem, we may need a temperature check.  We can be in the will of God.  That means we can meet our melting point.  Let’s figure out next week how hot it needs to be.

Do a little study on these verses and let the Lord take your temperature:  Numbers 31:33, Malachi 3:3, Isaiah 1:25, Isaiah 43:2, Deuteronomy 13:3, I Corinthians 3:13, Psalms 66:10-12.