Daniel 11:35 · World English Bible
Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
Even people who have grown wise are not spared hard falls. In fact the falling is part of how they are changed.
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PSYCHOANALYSIS
Even people who have grown wise are not spared hard falls. In fact the falling is part of how they are changed. A person is refined the way rough metal is worked in fire, and the fire is not comfortable. What burns away is everything false and unearned in him.
This kind of change cannot be rushed. It has its own slow timing, and much of the growth happens through the very stumbling a person would rather avoid. The suffering is not a punishment and not a sign that something has gone wrong. It is the pressure under which a fuller, truer self is slowly formed, and it lasts as long as that forming actually takes.
Psychoanalysis lens
What in your life are you trying to rush through that might actually be working on you?
Fire shows what gold is, and hardship shows what a person is. The test is not the ruin of you, it is how you come to know your own metal.
The lotus does not grow in clean water. It needs the mud, and what looks like the worst conditions turns out to be the only soil that works.
The crooked tree is not a failed straight one. What looks like damage is often the very thing that makes a life its own shape.
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