day no. 14,825: someone else's fire

Hebrews 12:29
Our God is a consuming fire.

It is easy to get caught up worrying about and spending your resources trying to put out someone else's fire. After all, we care about things and when other people are blaspheming, abusing or abandoning the things we love, we feel the need to rush in and insert ourselves into their situations, seeing the fires they are starting and worrying that if we don't put theirs out, they will eventually consume our worlds. We see the fires next door as threats to our coziness. 

But one can easily spend their entirely life attempting to snuff out someone else's fire only to die in due time, exhausted and spent and yet fires still blaze on the distant horizon.

That being the case, it is high time to be someone else's fire. Why spend so much time worried about what others are doing and start spending more time doing what you believe ought to be done. Do it so vigorously that others begin to worry about your consuming their worlds. Do it so valiantly that others begin to send squads to your door attempting to snuff out your flame.

All that to say, you can spend your life trying to put out someone else's fire or you can be someone else's fire. You can spend your energy on being a wet blanket or you can pour gasoline on what you're doing while watching others wear themselves wasting their water on your flame. When you become someone else's fire, you have the benefit of freeing yourself to focus on your priorities (Q2) and keep someone else from focusing on theirs (Q3). Instead of wasting your time chasing their crazy around (Q3), you flex your first things and become someone else's fire (Q3). That's called two birds, one stone friends.

You can worry about other people's problems or you can be someone else's problem. The Christian is not called to be a firefighter consumed by putting out someone else's fire.

The Christian is called to follow the all-consuming Fire. There are no fires that can consume His Kingdom. His fire will consume all other fires. His fire isn't concerned or worried about other people's fires. His all-consuming fire will not be withstood when it arrives. It is indomitable. It is inexhaustible.