Are you cold enough yet? I know some love this cold weather and others do not. The talk everywhere this week has been of the cold. I have been thinking about fire. The word fire is used throughout Scripture. Much of the time it is used to describe God. Hebrews 12:29 says “Our God is a consuming fire.”
There are two sides to fire. It is one of those things that can be very good or very bad. It can do a lot of damage when uncontrolled. Certainly none of us want to be on the receiving end of God’s wrath which is all-consuming.
The good news for us is that, as believers, we can experience the very good of God’s consuming fire as well in the form of the Holy Spirit. In Luke 3:16, John says that another is coming who will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. Later, during Pentecost, we read that “like a wildfire, the Holy Spirit spread through their ranks.” Oh that the Holy Spirit would burn like fire in our hearts.
