This has to be one of the hardest topics I have written about. Is it because I am relying more upon my own understanding versus God trying to speak to me and providing me the wisdom to write. I am not sure. Maybe I just need some more maturity with regards to God and His ways. Anyway, with Gods help I will try to provide some information about being forged or molded.
I am sure you have heard the phrase about being forged like metal on anvil or molded like clay. God will transform you, if that is what you want. However, how you will be transformed will depend on you.
If you are hard headed like I am, then I am sure that it will take fire, hammer, and an anvil to make that transformation or as I like to say it will take a 2×4 upside the head. However, that is not to say that you can not be molded like clay which is probably a much nicer way to be transformed.
So what does it mean to be transformed by God? Basically to me, it means you will give up your way and relying upon yourself and trust God and His ways and rely upon Christ to be the truth. To some it means you are reborn, in other words you are no longer your old self, but a new one in Christ. How you become this new self is up to you. You will more than likely not be liked by those that are of the world because they will not want to hear the truth that comes from God.
John 17:14-16 New International Version (NIV)
14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.