This painting is done with thick texture and rich tones of bright gold and copper paint. That background is iridescent a reflects light while looking different from different angles.

It is inspired from 1 Peter 1:6-7 “In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith-more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire-may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

This painting is to encourage us to press into our faith even when it’s hard. To trust God even when we don’t understand. God allows trials in our life to refine us and purify us so that we will be a radiant offering to him, made holy through Jesus Christ.