“The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.”~ Lv. 6:13
When I was a boy, we had an old coal stove in the front room that heated the rest of the house. My father, each morning, before going to work, would re-stoke the coals. Paul exhorted, “…stir up the gift of God which is in thee.” That is, “stoke” the coals. Get the fires going again. If you don’t, it will go out.
The Old Testament priest would go to the altar every morning, remove the ashes and rekindle the fire with a fresh sacrifice to fuel it. If the priest neglected this, the fire would go out. And so it is with our spiritual lives. The apostle warns, “…neglect not the gift that is in.”
An imitation fireplace in the heart can’t keep you warm. You will get cold without the real thing. Jeremiah says, “But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire.” Is that true of us?
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