Friday, 13 November 2009

• Stoking the heat into a fire

  
  I'm sitting here tending to the remains of a fire in the fireplace. A charred, smoldering log was all that remained, so I broke it up. Inside it was black already, and some places were glowing orange. The fragments were glowing with internal heat, but there was no flame.
  
  So I gathered the fragments with the tongs. I made a sort of pile that had spaces in between. Soon, these merely glowing piece flamed up into a bright, hot tongue of fire.
  
  We believers all have the Holy Spirit within, the fire of God glowing with in. It is good. It is warm. But each piece glows alone in solitude. When we gather ourselves into groups, with room to breathe, but close together nonetheless, God's Mighty Rushing Wind will blow our collective internal heat into a bright, hot tongue of fire.
  
  Revival starts in the individual as an orange glow. The individuals must unite to form families, close enough to share each other's heat but with space enough to let the Spirit flow among the individuals. Then, the glow will become an external flame, bright and hot, calling all who are in darkness and in the cold.
  
  

  "Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching." Hebrews 10:24-25
  

  
  

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