Pig Iron is a lot of little pieces of metal, iron ore, and fragments from the earth. These little shards are the foundation for something spectacular. They are the material for molten steel. Pig iron when melted becomes the key ingredient in casting steel beams for building. When they are heated they fuse, melt, and then become formable. They become metal, steel. They become one large piece together when they are under pressure. In the process they lose their own identity to that of what they are becoming. They become metal. They are formed into steel.
In our hearts we all start out with a lot of little shards. Our passions, desires, dreams, visions, failures, and skills are our pig iron. Then God applies pressure, life circumstances, and our choices are the oven that heats us. As we go through this process we are becoming something in our heart. This is what it means to “have metal”. Metal is our character, our skill, our experience refined by circumstances, choices, by passion, vision, failure, and the pressure of life. What we are becoming is revealed by the Creator’s process.
A lot of little things make a big difference! Never discount the little shards of life as something to be thrown away. There are no wasted experiences, and there are no “throw away moments.” These little things are the materials our Creator uses for making us metal.
When you look back and you find some piece of pig iron just remember that experience is a valuable piece of material for what God wants us to become. Don’t discount the little things in your life as without value, but rather let the creator make metal of them.
