we want to encourage you to keep the fire burning! No, we’re not here to give you a false sense of hope or a false sense of regalityToday’s Daily bread comes to us from Romans 12:9-21
Today, we want to encourage you to keep the fire burning! No, we’re not here to give you a false sense of hope or a false sense of regality. Instead I’m here to say to you don’t let the fire inside you be extinguished with the worlds outside perspectives. Many of us would be lulled to sleep thinking that once we accept Christ the fire just stays a-blaze without proper maintenance, well contrary to popular “religious” belief I am here to tell you that it is not so! Modern day religion would have us believe that if we wake up every day and just go about our business the spiritual fire inside will keep itelf burning strong. This school of though can be attributed to the fact that in today’s world everyone is so use to this microwave philosophy which suggest that we can “set it and forget it”, we’ve become all about a quick fix, and funny enough when that “fix” breaks down, we expect it to fix it self autonomously. Take for example a physical parody to this; modern furnaces have completely slashed the work out of keeping warm in extremely cold climates, we can simply press a button and make ourselves warmer and actually set the temperature at which we desire this warmth to top off. Once we do this there is never a need to check and see if the fire is still burning, it will just turn itself off when it reaches the temperature you desired.
Now let’s roll the timeline back to days past when people would have to make sure there was enough wood around to keep the fire burning, some one had to the fire and monitor the fuel supplies. As an otherwise miscalculation in the amount of wood, would be certain death.
The same is true with our “SPIRITUAL FIRE “. If we think that we can simply ignore it and continue about our daily lives and it will somehow keep itself burning then we have made a mistake that would in effect cost us that which we have fought so hard to attain; which is the relationship and fellowship with the Lord.
Alarmed? You should be, because if you didn’t know accepting; Christ is the easy part, after this now comes the trials and the tests which will mold you into the rugged soldier of life that you need to be. Romans 12:11 tells us that we are to be “fervent in spirit”, which when analytically surmised basically means to keep the fire burning.
How do we do that? I’m glad you asked!
1: pray each day don’t let it slip even when you are so physically tired that you just want to lay down and shut down. Remember the “effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man, availeth much”.
2: Guard against the influxes of the enemy. Remember none is going to come into your house in a red suit and decorated with horns and a pitch fork. These challenges are presented to you in the form of a friend saying “lets go get hammered tonight” or someone you meet on the way home from work gives you a hard time. And the Achilles heel of every American !ROAD RAGE! These are just some of the things we should guard our hearts from.
3: Look out for those so called ”well wishers” who would in your face be perceived as wanting the best for you and in the meanwhile they are speaking negative things into your spirit and about you behind your back. So be carful the things that you see and hear, because you cannot undo them and you are responsible for them. What you do with the information good or bad is how we measure our strength in our walk with the lord.
So we encourage you today to check up one your spiritual fire, remember it is not on auto-pilot and there are shortcuts around this. The best way to make sure you have a real grip on this life is to make sure that we tend to the important aspects that govern our reality. Keeping a close watch on the items we listed above (numbers 1-3) and take care of this life that you are given. Remember, this is it, you’ve got one physical life to live and what we do with it echoes into eternity, where will you spend yours?
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