Hebrews 12:28-29
Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire.
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Mankind’s story surely begins with God forming Adam and then the woman Eve in the Garden of Eden. But our story as the people of God, a nation of believers, not just families, starts for the most part with Moses and a fire on Horeb, the mountain of God: “And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.” {Ex.3:2}
 
The bush, ablaze with fire, was miraculously not consumed by our God who is a consuming fire—but Moses having committed murder who was hiding from the wrath of the Pharaoh and the scorn of his fellow Hebrews. He was a man who had been reduced from being a prince of Egypt to being a shepherd of a flock that was not even his and he was indeed consumed. It was a ‘new’ man, filled with the boldness of the Lord who confronted the king of Egypt commanding that he let God's people go!
 
If you, a believer saved by grace, are reading this I pray that you be reminded that you are filled with the same fire of the Holy Spirit that fell on the believers in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. {Acts 2:1-4} You have been given the same zeal that moved the prophet Elijah on Mount Carmel when he faced all of the false prophets. He built an altar in the name of the Lord and the Lord sent fire from heaven. It was a fire that consumed the ox being offered, and the wood and the stones and the dust and the water that was in the trench. {1Ki.18:38} Indeed, a consuming fire!
 
We need to understand what true worship is and offer ourselves as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God. {Rom.12:1} That is the path to understanding Abraham as he prepared to offer his beloved son Isaac as a holy sacrifice. It was to have been a sacrifice of fire, a burnt offering, a consuming fire. {Gen.22:2} That was of course a foreshadow of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. Like the offering on Mount Carmel, there should be nothing left other than our Lord. As John the Baptist said, 'He must increase, but I must decrease.'
 
If you find that zeal, that fire, waning or not burning as bright as you know it should in yourself, then heed the words of the apostle Paul writing to Timothy telling him to 'kindle afresh the gift of God.’ {2Tim.1:6} Stoke the fire, add more fuel to the fire (you) and let the Holy Spirit of God in you fan the flames until the fire in you lights up everything in you and around you. Let that holy fire consume you so you can be exactly what the Lord wants you to be!

A man questioned Jesus:
"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law? And He said to him: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’"(Matthew 22:36-37)
 
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