ON FIRE
For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. - Mark 9:49
We can see the gospels that Jesus always use parables to communicate principles of the Kingdom of God. He said each believer’s life should have the same impact on his or her world as salt has on food. Salt gives food flavor and brings out the best, while at the same time it serves as a preservative.
We Christian will only be salty when we got fire. God knows that each believer needs a degree of testing by fire in order for Christ’s fragrance to be manifested. We cannot become salty without this deeper work of the Holy Spirit’s fire in our lives. Fire purifies all that is not of Christ. It takes away all the impurities that prevent His nature from being revealed in us.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith–of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire–may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed (1 Peter 1:6-7).
Are you a salty Christian? If not, pray a prayer that the immature are unwilling to pray. Pray that God makes you a salty Christian. It will result in praise and glory at the throne of God.
4 Comments»
mike
17. January 2008 | 04:41 h
COMFORT ZONE
What becomes of your comfort zone
When it’s turned upside down
Something out of your control
Decides to come to town
A visit unexpected
That strikes a part of you
An unhealed place from long ago
That you’ve kept safe from view.
You thought that all those healing times
Put paid to inner pain
That all the careful snipping
Finally made you whole again
But God’s a loving surgeon
His timing is perfection
And there’s a reason that He leaves
A part of the infection.
If we were fully sanitized
We wouldn’t want His touch
And we’d go on our merry way
Not needing Him so much
So as we seek His perfect will
For what we’re going through
Remember that He needs our love
Cause nothing less will do.
joy
19. January 2008 | 21:59 h
Yeah being forgiving even those things that almost ruined your life makes our heart felt light. This is an awesome page, spreading the words of the Lord live. Visit my online bible too. This is joyoz of B/C. Please care to vote me in the poll. Have a nice Sunday!
Clare
20. January 2008 | 15:18 h
Right on!
Lisa
4. February 2008 | 19:57 h
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