Fire

A fire mesmerizes me. I can sit for hours and hours and watch a fire burn. I'm scared of them and want to make sure that I keep them under control but I love to watch them burn. The flames are all unique. Each one has a totally different color and glow. They each dance around at their own rhythm and even seem to be dancing to their own music. Some flames move back and forth at a rapid rate like a bunch of teenagers dancing and then others just slowly sway back and forth and remind me of an older couple dancing in their living room just enjoying being together.

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The embers floating up into the air are just as intriguing to me. They pop and swirl and then within just a few seconds they are gone. I like it when as the ember is floating away from the fire a flame will stretch tall, grab the ember and pull it back down into the flame and from that point on I cannot tell where the ember ends and the flame begins.

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The coals in the bottom of the fire glowing like lava are beautiful. There are no flames in these coals but yet they are just as hot, if not hotter, than the flames. They put off an intense heat that can warm you when you are cold all the way to your bones. These coals even have the ability to spark a flame and restart a fire that has long been put out.

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A fire serves many purposes. It is heat when you are cold, it is light when there is darkness, it can use it's heat to cook food when you are hungry, dry clothes when you are wet or clear a path that it too thick to cut. In Luke 3:16 John says "...But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." He will baptize you with fire....hmmmm....think on that for just a second.

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As Christians we aren't designed to sit in the pew and play church. We were baptized with fire! We can't be still! We are on fire! We are the warmth for the cold world. We are the light where there is nothing but darkness. We are to feed the hungry (physically and spiritually). We are to dry those who have been drenched with the storms of life. We are to clear a path for others to follow. We are a living fire with flames dancing in all directions controlled not by ourselves but by the Holy Spirit. Touching lives, changing lives just as our lives were changed, and reaching out to grab that one ember that is about to fade away and pull it back into our flames so that it too can become a great fire for the Lord!

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Don't allow others to pour water on you and extinguish your fire today!