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God is a Stripper

By Jeremy Myers
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God is a Stripper

God is a stripper.

No, not that kind. (Though if you believe Jesus, strippers are probably closer to the Kingdom of God than many religious people… See Matthew 21:31.)

God is a stripperWhen I say “God is a stripper” I am reminded of a “looking for work” advertisement I saw in the newspaper a few years ago. At the top of the ad in big bold letters it said, “I’ll strip for you!” This ad was placed by a lady who owned a furniture stripping company. She was offering to strip and refinish your wood furniture. If you have ever tried to refinished your furniture, you know how valuable her services are. If I had to refinish the antique table my wife and I own, I would hire a stripper… a furniture stripper!

But all of us have something more important than our furniture, and that is our life. And in the life of every single one of us there are blemishes and defects. We all have areas of our life that need to be refinished, refined, or removed.

So when we pray, “God, make me usable to you! Make me into the kind of person who can do great things for you!” He comes in and begins stripping away everything in your life that holds you back and drags you down. He makes you into something useful and beautiful.

This is the “refiner’s fire” we sometimes sing about, where God burns away the dross to leave behind precious gold, silver, and jewels. This is the purifying fire which Paul writes about in 1 Corinthians 3 where our works are put to the test so that only what is valuable and eternal remains, and the wood, hay, and straw gets burned up.

Such a process is long and painful. It may feel as if God has abandoned or forgotten about you. But when you emerge out the other side, you are beautiful and useful for His purposes.

God strips ugly things out of our life

Have you had the experience of God stripping something away from your life? What did you learn? How did you get through it? Are you glad you went through that experience? 

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: 1 Corinthians 3, Discipleship, life, purification, refining

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  1. Carl says

    February 25, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    You have a flair for the shock effect. My wife recently refinished a couple pieces of furniture and did a great job of it. After reading your blog I told her she should start a business doing stripping but she wasn’t as impressed with the humor of it. I got the “look”.

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  2. Michelle says

    February 26, 2008 at 7:45 am

    Search me O God and know my heart, try me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.

    I’ve prayed this prayer for years. It’s not been an easy life, but I am glad to say I am not the same person I was. The stripping can be very painful.

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  3. Jeremy Myers says

    February 26, 2008 at 10:06 am

    Carl, Hey! I am not sure how much stripping pays…furniture stripping that is…so your wife will probably want to keep her day job…

    Michelle, that is an excellent prayer to pray and will lead to God stripping you of some things. Prayers are dangerous! I am doing a post today about a prayer I’ve been praying for over about twelve years now.

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