Fire

Are you cold enough yet?  I know some love this cold weather and others do not.  The talk everywhere this week has been of the cold.  I have been thinking about fire.  The word fire is used throughout Scripture.  Much of the time it is used to describe God.  Hebrews 12:29 says “Our God is a consuming fire.”

There are two sides to fire.  It is one of those things that can be very good or very bad.  It can do a lot of damage when uncontrolled.  Certainly none of us want to be on the receiving end of God’s wrath which is all-consuming.

The good news for us is that, as believers, we can experience the very good of God’s consuming fire as well in the form of the Holy Spirit.  In Luke 3:16, John says that another is coming who will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. Later, during Pentecost, we read that “like a wildfire, the Holy Spirit spread through their ranks.”  Oh that the Holy Spirit would burn like fire in our hearts.

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