So… just an update on what God is doing in my life.
On our first nights in Vilanculos, Mozambique we had worship around the campfire and as we sat I just gazed into the fire. I wondered why we so often intrigued by fires especially when we know what damage they can do. Yes, I know they bring warmth, light and so much more. But I knew that God was trying to speak to me about fire… where this conversation (with Him) was headed, I did not know.
I once wrote a sermon just out of nowhere (I was a senior in high school)… I was at home using my Dad’s “Bible Master” (a computer program) and decided to look up the word fire in the Bible dictionary and in the original Greek or Hebrew (don’t remember which) the word meant “spotless and new”. As I sat there, I wrote about how God has us walk through the fire to make us spotless and new (just as the silversmith turns up the heat to pull out all the imperfections… and he does this til he sees his own reflection). And lately, this “sermon” has been playing itself through my head.
These last 6 month have been tough spiritually and God has done some incredible things in my life! But God has told me that I have been standing just outside the fire. I have been feeling its heat but that in these last few months He is calling me to step into the fire. God has called me to so much and I have heard His voice but I didn’t always choose to obey.
This is where I need to step forward in obedience and step into the fire. It is going to hurt at times but I want to change… I need to change! I want to more of Christ and less of me!!!
So pray that I not only hear God’s voice but obey.
