Fired Up For Your Faith
There’s A Fire!
“What’s that smell?”
“Something’s burning!”
Those are not the kind of words you want to hear on New Year’s Day. (or any day for that matter).
What in the world?
Sure enough, something at our house was on fire.
You just never think it’s going to happen to you.
It was so scary.
No Time to Spare
You might think it started in the fireplace.
After all, it was freezing outside, with a wind chill of 0 degrees.
Brrrr!
We had a fire burning in the fireplace all day.
Everything seemed fine for hours, until one of our dogs started acting up.
They always know when something’s wrong, don’t they?
He started running around like he was looking for a place to hide.
Uh oh.
Then we started to smell it too.
A bad burning smell wafted into the family room.
We both got up and frantically started looking around.
My husband went to the kitchen and opened the oven.
First place you look, right?
There was no food burning, and no flames to douse.
Where the heck was that smell coming from?
I decided to open the back door to let some fresh air in, and that’s when I saw it.
A thick cloud of black smoke hung over the whole porch, and big flames were dancing and flaring out from the grill.
I yelled, “It’s here!!!!!!”
Sure enough, I had located the source, and we needed to act fast.
My husband ran outside to fight the fire. I opened some windows inside the house to get some fresh air in, and tended to our dogs. They were absolutely terrified. I was shaking too, as I consoled them.
It took a little time, but we finally got the fire out.
“Grateful” doesn’t even describe how we felt, once the flames were doused.
I’m so thankful that no one was hurt, and also for our dog for warning us.
My husband and I said a prayer of thanks. It could have been so much worse.
Get Fired Up
Our porch fire was a close call and an important reminder that life can change in an instant.
There was no thinking about it first, or putting it off until later.
We had to act fast to get the flames out.
The whole incident got me thinking.
Do we get just as fired up about strengthening our faith? Are there areas of our faith we need to improve?
There are difficult times up ahead on the global stage, and we need to be ready.
An important goal for me is Scripture memorization.
“It Is Written” For A Reason
Why is Scripture memorization important for all of us?
Because Jesus knew and quoted Scripture. (good enough for me).
Knowing and continuing to learn about Scripture is essential to knowing God.
It saddens me when I hear that some religious leaders want to change the words of, and/or reject the Bible.
They are misleading many people and they will be held accountable for that.
We must have discernment, now more than ever.
Christians – please don’t put your Christianity on a shelf, get fired up for your faith!
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*Oswald Chambers quotation, public domain, and as quoted from Christian quotes.info
