Fire is a great consumer.
It is a purifier. It is also a great revealer. When gold is placed into the fire and it becomes molten, impurities found in the gold rise to top where they are skimmed off leaving behind a pure product. Our faith will undergo this same fiery test, a test which will cause impurities to rise to the top where we can see them. This test of our faith will cause us to see what we are really made of, what kind of person we are, and what kind of Christian we are.