Ignited

Ignited

I stand amazed!  Every day-every second, every minute of every day.  When I look around me I am amazed.  This morning I look out my window and see the beautiful breath taking sunrise God has given us!  God knows all of the woods are going to be filled with those eager hunters in their tree stands in the 0 degree weather.  It’s so like Him to say, “Why don’t I remind my children of Me with a beautiful horizon while they wait on that big buck to come in their cross hairs!”  And when I looked out on it from my bedroom, it’s as if the woods were on fire and the glow from the fire illuminates the Heaven!  Its “catchin’”.  You can’t NOT look at it!  He makes it so gorgeous and so pure, so IGNITED, that you have to see it! 

We, the church, are so like the hunter in the woods!  We sit back and wait and watch for something to come in our cross hairs and then when you least expect it He ignites someone and they first light up the whole church.  They illuminate it.  And God, that fire, is “catchin’”.  And just like that sunrise in the sky, you can’t NOT look at who God has ignited in your church.  You see that anointed ignited person and you say, “Boy O Boy!”  I want a little spark of that flame!  And before you know it the whole woods is on fire; your church is on fire for Jesus!  And you sit back and think, wow, what was that!   It was a little spark!  Just a spark!  A spark that started with a word or a deed and God saw potential!  If we are obedient to Him and do it all, do whatever He tells us, even though, yes, we don’t like the taste of it in our mouth but we know it’s for our best interest and we will be better off if we do it!  He will fan that spark!  It will become a flame and as that flame grows it’s going to grab those closest to it.  And then it starts reaching out to the places you don’t even see. The flames are so high that more sparks are flying off and there starts another flame!

God is just so good.  So so good!  He has been fanning my flame for a while and I will be there first to tell you, some of the things He asks me to do I just have to say “Really?”  “You want me to do THAT? OK, here I go!”  But trust me I have a bad taste in my mouth!  But it doesn’t last forever and the quicker I do what He tells me, the faster I get that minty fresh taste back! 

So if God is telling you to do something you better do it because He wants to fan your flame!  He wants you so ignited that the sparks are flying off of you left and right!  So for all you hunters out there, I envy you!  You have a perfect opportunity to be one with the Almighty, plus many get paid vacation days for it!  Now tell me that’s not a divine plan!  God knows how we work!  How we think!  And the biggest most macho man can’t sit out in a tree stand and see what I saw this morning out my window and not fall to His knees and acknowledge and thank the God Almighty in Heaven who created it!

So BE SAFE in the woods this week!  But if a spark flies your way- CATCH IT!