Sanctified Affliction

This was in my Valley of Vision prayer book this morning. Very powerful.

"I thank Thee that many of my prayers have been refused--
I have asked amiss and do not have,
I have prayed from lusts and been rejected,
I have longed for Egypt and been given a wilderness.
Go on with Thy patient work,
answering 'no' to my wrongful prayers, and fitting me to
accept it.
Purge me from every false desire, every base aspiration,
everything contrary to Thy rule.
I thank Thee for Thy wisdom and Thy love,
for all the acts of discipline to which I am subject,
for sometimes putting me into the furnace
to refine my gold and remove my dross.

No trial is so hard to bear as a sense of sin.
If Thou shouldst give me choice to live in pleasure and keep my sins,
or to have them burnt away with trial,
give me sanctified affliction.
Deliver me from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins,
everything that dims the brightness of Thy grace in me,
everything that prevents me taking delight in Thee.
Then I shall bless Thee, God of Jeshurun, for helping me to be upright."

In the "Daniel" study, Beth Moore discusses how God periodically allows fiery trials in order to "burn the fake out of us."
Lord, help me to see any trial, large or small, as "sanctified affliction," purging me of "every false desire, every base aspiration, and everything contrary to Your rule," from glory to glory, ever conforming me to the image of your Son. Amen.