Galvanize your heart

I have a little galvanized steel pitcher. It doesn’t look like other steel. It isn’t shiny or brushed looking. It has little shapes, jagged and erratic and dull. This finish is called “spangle.”

They make galvanized steel through a process of coating the steel in zinc. There are several types methods used. They dip the metal in hot zinc or subject it to electric charges. Regardless of the technique used the dirt, grease and rust must first be removed. The steel must be completely clean. The zinc adheres to the metal and creates the spangle pattern.

What does this zinc coating do for the metal? It protects it from corrosion. It makes it resist rust and the natural degradation to which it would be susceptible.

This is how troubles and struggles work in our own lives. First the dirt and grime of life have to be cleaned off. Then we need to go through a fortifying process, and then we are resistant to corruption and degradation.

How do we do this? Keeping our eyes on God. Reading his word. Doing as he would want us to do.

2 Peter 1: 3-4 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that
through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped
the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.