Our God is a consuming fire. Fire is beautiful and intriguing. I love to sit in front of a campfire and watch it flicker and lick as it simultaneously creates and destroys. Even candles steal away my attention as they turn wax into liquid and gas.
Flames can be experienced as both good and bad at the same time. I would venture that we always experience flame as good and bad. To be Christian is to live aflame.
Jesus said, "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!"
The flame burns in our hearts. It is the Holy Spirit blazing in our eyes and giving unction to our spirits. The flame is God himself consuming us, destroying our sinful selves and creating our righteous perfected souls.
The flame is also around us burning with wrath. We experience it in division and difficulty caused by the clash of our old life, passing away, turning to ash, with the life burning with passion and Presence. It is the flame of persecution experienced by 53 million martyrs. It is the flame of division driving families apart.
It is the flame of life burning on for all eternity in the heart of man. The flame of family inaugurated in the lives of those with like precious faith, Savior and Father.
Burn on!
The Undying Fire
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