Cooling Off

  Finally a break in the weather! Wasn’t it great to see the rains come and relieve the drought like conditions that plagued us at the end of the summer? Isn't it nice to have some less than 90º days to work in the yard or just enjoy the great outdoors? Finally, it’s cooling off!

 Seasons come and go on this terrestrial ball, and everyone looks forward to his “favorite time of year.” Some like it hot, some like it cold, but nearly everyone looks at this diversity as a tasteful spice of life.

 But there is another cooling off that seems pretty obvious to those of us who keep our eyes on a different kind of thermometer. When Christ had departed from the two disciples that He met on the road to Emmaus after His resurrection, one of them remarked to the other, “Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? (Luke 24:32).” Here is another realm in which a change of season seems to be ushered in at present, but, would to God that, in this realm, the temperatures would only rise.

 If you are a child of God, may I ask how that fire fares that God has kindled in your heart? If you take a good long look at those embers within, would you have to say that there’s a cooling off taking place in that realm too? Are the things of God, the ways of God, the Word of God becoming less important to you, as the things of the world, the ways of the world and the wisdom of the world vie for first place?

 Perhaps we should give serious consideration to what this spiritual cooling will mean to our nation, “One Nation Under God.” Perhaps we should notice what effect our frigid hearts will have on the “Body of Christ.” Let’s consider also the personal, spiritual detriment that comes from allowing God’s embers to be smothered with the waters of worldliness. It’s time to fan the flames!!!