Despite what the title may say, I don’t have any first degree burns. I have had them in the past because of cooking accidents, sunburns, and plain just being a klutz. But as usual anytime I blog on here, something has got a hold of my brain so I have to let it out somehow. And you all get to read it because sometimes I much as I love doing one on ones with you all I can’t make it to coffee or I just don’t know you ^^; (Sad but true)
Back to the subject on hand.
Last night, I was listening to PC talk (honestly, dude is an amazing speaker. Go check out his blog. Do it http://ragamuffinpc.com/) at Fusion going through the book of Acts. We were reading Acts 2:5-22. It was all about how the Holy Spirit made itself known to the world through the disciples and was like “Hey world, I’m here and Jesus loves you!” Cue jazz hands. Enough of my silliness though.
It was interesting to listen to PC talk about how God used the apostles to light a fire in the common people around them who in turn went and spread Christianity with such an intensity that it moved about the known world in such a short period. He pointed out that for them to do that they had to be on fire themselves. The exact words he used were “You can not catch anyone on fire unless you are willing to burn a little yourself.”
In the act of lighting an actual fire, you risk getting burned. It’s always a risk anytime you are around fire that you might get burned. You can be as careful as you can but you have to embrace that risk. The worst burn you can get when lighting your fire is hopefully, a first degree burn. This is due to the heat and chemical reaction of the fuel and the ignition source (I’m a slight pyromaniac just to let you all know) and what it does to our skin. But the idea of being on fire to set others on fire made a lot of sense to me.
It’s like I am a torch and God is the fuel that lights and sustains it. The more I allow the fuel aka God to saturate me and fill me the brighter I burn. The more people are going to notice that I am different. And by doing that, I can get to know them and show them who and what God is and doing in my life. But to light them on fire, I have to be willing to go past getting first degree burns.
My relationship with God can not just stay at that point. I can’t just keep holding my hand over the flame and pull back when things start to get hot and crazy. Recently my life is taking a new direction in several ways and not all of them I am excited about but are needed because I can not continue to live the way I am. What I need to do,along with continue moving forward with those changes, is continue to entangle myself in God. I can do nothing without him and I can most certainly not light others on fire for him. I need to entangle myself so much until were I’m not getting first degree burns but have gone into the territory of third degrees/being literally on fire so I can reach out and pass the fire along to those I come in contact with.
I’m not gonna lie, I feel like I’m already struggling with this but at the same time I know the struggle is worth it. Again as I have said before please pray for me and hopefully soon I can tell you what the changes are happen in the world of me.
Love and peace to you all
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