Put another log on the fire.

Can you remember the excitement of your first kiss? Do you remember how excited you were in anticipation of your wedding night? How about the first time you drove a car alone, or driving your first brand new car off the showroom floor?

I remember buying a Toyota Supra with the white package (White car, white trim, white alloy wheels and blue leather with a Targa top). I felt so cool in that car! I distinctly remember driving it home the night I bought it thinking; “I will never get tired driving this car”.

I will be married 13 years this Wednesday, and I remember thinking after our wedding that nothing could come between my wife and me…

But in my marriage, just like the Supra, I had to wash it and change the oil… and my first set of tires OMGosh were they expensive! It became work to own it, just like it has sometimes been work to stay married. I love my wife with all my heart… but there are times when I have not been in love with her. And yes, I eventually came to see my beautiful Supra as just another car and my wife as the woman I married.

How about our relationship with Jesus? I remember when I first realized just what being a Christian was. The Love God had for me and the Love I had for Him… I sometimes felt, I mean really physically felt the Love of God coursing through my body. When I would see Him move or work in front of me it blew me away…

But just like my marriage and just like the Supra… without work, with out effort without consciously deciding everyday to reaffirm and live my life for Him… it can so easily become something I do instead of something I am…

I can’t wait for the day when I can see Him face to face, to spend time alone with Him in some meadow in Heaven, and get all the answers to “Why”. Sometimes my belief in that happening is all that keeps me putting one foot in front of the other. I pray that I can finish like Paul did and say that I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I will hear Him say… “Well done, come in and rest a while”.

But we still have to get through today, and tomorrow and every tomorrow beyond that, that He gives us.

Does He still burn or did He ever burn that bright in your life?

Ask God to light or relight your fire!

He wants to be all that you desire… and He wants to posses all that you are, and until we can get to the point where HE alone is the source for the flame and not our wives, our cars, our houses our careers or what ever it is that floats your boat, then serving Him will get old and worn out just like the things that we own.

And we will finish the race in last place… or maybe we won’t even finish at all!