In 2013 I gave my life to Christ, started going to church every Sunday and attending Bible study over the phone because I couldn’t attend in person. I was so excited. Everything out of my mouth was God this, Jesus that so much so that I know my wife got tired of hearing it. I was up all hours of the night reading trying to get an understanding of the scriptures and the different things in the Bible that I read. I mean I was on fire.
In that same year I got very sick and put my old life (clubbing, drinking, and cussing) on the back burner and put God on the front burner in hopes of healing and saving my soul and He’s been on the front burner since.
The last ten years of my life have not been easy, lost my parents, lost high school friends, and other very close relatives. Things I’ve been praying for haven’t exactly manifested themselves the way I thought they would. Try as I might, pray as I might, and faith as I might, it just hasn’t gone according to the way I would have it to go. So, yes, my fire had started to die down and flicker a bit.
In the Bible it says, “The devil comes to kill, steal, and destroy”. Kill our hopes and dreams, steal our joy, and destroy our relationship with God. Bible study last night reminded me of something that I will share not my words but the Elder’s word that taught it. “Sometimes we don’t do as much as we used to for God. (Being Slothful)” We stop reading, studying, and giving God the proper praise and honor like we used too. In other words, we slack off because of various reasons and slowly but surely, we get to a point of I DON’T WANT TO DO THIS ANYMORE, I’M TIRED and maybe I QUIT. Wrong answer!
Life is having its way with all of us right now and it will probably continue, but we can’t let the cares of the world and the things in our lives suffocate us until our fire goes out. Be honest and open minded. Take a look back at your life and see what God has done and He continues to do. It may not be exactly how you want it, but it can always be worse. Be content, hopeful, and prayerful. God has something amazing in store for all of us, just you wait and see. “Don’t Let Your Fire Go Out”. May God continue to bless you, your brother in Christ…TMK.
