Fire

Most of you people who know me probably know that I like fire. Not in some crazy burn-everything-in-sight-pro like, but I enjoy making fires and watching them, and burning different things to see what burns better, faster, and things like that.

Well anyway, lately I've been thinking about how fire is often used as an analogy for the passion we have for God. And the more think of it, the more I like it. I'm just going to talk about fire for a bit here and I want you to try and see how they compare to the Christian life.

When starting a fire, an outside flame or spark has to introduced in order to start a fire. A bunch of sticks and kindling (probably) isn't going to just burst into flames. Also when starting a fire, it's easier to start with kindling and small branches rather than starting with a whole log.

Three essentials to any fire are: heat, oxygen, and fuel. If one of these is missing, then there is no fire.

When you have a fire going, you must keep adding more fuel if you don't want your fire to go out. But on the flip side, you don't want to add more fuel than the fire can take and smoother the fire.

Also a fire is only useful if someone is there to use it (duh).

Well, I think you get the gist of what I'm hitting at. Maybe.

But one more thing I want to point out. Christian culture is also whining about "where has the passion gone? where if the fire that we used to have?" Well, I would like to ask them when was the last time they feed the flames? How can you expect a fire to keep burning when you don't putting any more fuel on it?

Anyway, that's all I've got to say for now.