Drying:
Psalm 32:3-5
Have you ever felt abandoned by God and "hung out to dry"? Ask God to give you some insight into His purposes.
Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34
Breaking (a process in which flax is beaten and broken from one end to the other. This loosens the tough inner and outer woody parts, but does not damage the fibers):
Isaiah 8:9
Does this happen only to wicked or rebellious people?
Job 9:17, 12:14; 16:14; Psalm 31:12
When the breaking process seems to go on forever, without purpose, is there any comfort to be found?
Job 5:18; Isaiah 30:26; 54:16, 17; Hosea 6:1
Scutching (a process in which the broken bits of woody fiber, called "shives," are scraped and beaten away, freeing the silky inner fibers):
Romans 7:24; I Corinthians 15:36, 37
To ponder -- if we are sinners by nature, and sin becomes a part of us, then when God takes sin away, will it feel like a loss of our own being? But is it really?
Hackling (a process in which flax fibers are drawn through progressively finer teeth to separate the long, fine fibers - "line" - fromt the short, coarse fibers - "tow". Both are useful, but they go through different processing depending on what their purpose is to be):
Revelation 3:19; I Peter 4:12, 13; I Corinthians 12
To ponder -- Which is more valuable, fine linen cloth, or burlap sacking? Why?
More tomorrow. . .
Repairing the Breach,
Debbonnaire
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