Burning embers fanned become high rising flames!

I was outside burning yard debris today. While playing around with the fire, I observed how the embers would glow red but really were not flaming up. With just a little bit of a breeze or blowing on them, the flames would rise ever so high. This brought thoughts of how we go through life just sort of glowing and every now and then we get excited about something and we flame up with activity or talking, etc.

Also, it made me think about when I study God's Word. I may have not had anything to say all day about his Word but after I begin reading and studying it, I want to share it right away. It's like the embers, I am just glowing but His Word of edification sets the flame to a full burn.

Isn't it awesome that God gave us the Bible so that we could know what he desires of us? It takes effort to open it, that includes using the internet Bibles. We have to go to them, begin reading and expect to learn something. I read the Bible off and on my entire young life but I did not expect to learn something. I read it because, well, you are supposed to. But as life passed and events happened, I came to a realization that something was missing.

I got back in Church, began socializing with other Believers of the one God in Heaven, and began reading and questioning what I was reading in the Bible. I desired to know God. Then my ears were opening to the non-truths being taught. For instance, in a sermon, the preacher was trying to teach that God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost are one. Now if Jesus Christ is God, how did he go sit at his own right hand? Also if Jesus was the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, why did he have to leave so it would come? If Jesus Christ always did his Father's will, how could he be his own Father? Was Jesus praying to himself in the Garden of Gethsemane prior to his capture or was he praying to his Father?

Jesus Christ and his Father are one means to be on one accord, they are as one in the same purpose. Not that they are one entity. When I realized this, I began to see the absurdity of what I had been taught in Sunday School and by preachers my entire life. I would never have seen this, however, if I had not wanted to learn more about God. As long as I took someone else's word for it, did not open my Bible and read and try to understand it, I was taking their word for what they thought the Bible said. Just going through life with a little ember burning, just enough to glow, letting someone else tell me what they thought.

But when I fanned the ember with a bit of truth, I burned hot for the truth of God's Word.

I read everything I could find, I took Bible Classes that taught me how to understand the Bible. Understanding that the bible is an oriental written book helps understand the examples given for us. Things like sitting at a persons feet to learn, plowing the oxen and kicking the pricks, burying one's dead and etc. have meanings that an American might not understand readily. I learned what scripture build-up was, how the scripture usually interprets itself if you know how to read it, and research it. I learned about certain figures of speech in the Bible and why they are important. All these things and more, I learned because my little ember got fanned with the truth.

It was awesome to have the flame burning in me to seek, find and enjoy all that God has for me. This same God desires for your ember to get fanned and for your fire to burn for the truth. Seek God. He is there waiting for you.