How are you handling the hot water? WFW 2-33 Word for Wednesday

For some materials, hot water extracts the best potential, for some it hardens or weakens. For the last several years the whole world has seemingly been in some very hot water. Will these trying circumstances and upheaval harden your heart, or bring out the goodness of the Lord inside you? Is the proverbial " hot water" changing you or are you changing the "hot water" around you?