Leviticus 6:13 says ‘the fire shall ever be burning upon the altar it shall never go out.’
DAILY READING – Ephesians 5:21-33; Ezekiel 16; Isaiah 45
Witold Glinski is the last survivor of World War Two’s greatest escape.
While only 17 years, he was separated from his parents, and taken to Moscow’s notorious Lubianka Prison where he was condemned to 25 years hard labour.
Staying in that prison was like a death sentence. So, he had a choice to either wait to die, or try to get away.
Witold began plotting his escape from prison and when he eventually escaped, he and six other men walked 4,000 miles to freedom.. All the way from the Siberian prison camp to India they trekked through frozen forests, over mountains and across deserts on a journey that took 11 months.
Though they were seven men when they broke out from prison in February 1941, only four reached to safety, at a British base in India.
They had escaped from the prison camp in the middle of a snowstorm in 1941 and headed south, avoiding towns. They journeyed from Siberia to India crossing the Gobi Desert and Himalayas.
They did the incredible by surviving the freezing weather and walking on foot for over 4000 miles through the killing cold of Siberia. They would eventually cross through five countries.
Their survival, despite the insurmountable cold, was possible because they had a flint and knife with which they could make fire and keep warm. They also survived because they walked briskly generating heat that kept their bodies warm. After a gruesome journey, they eventually escaped from the hostile soviet territory, into safety.
We can draw a deep spiritual lesson from this story.
Fire is essential for survival when journeying through a cold region.
As believers we are pilgrims journeying through the spiritually cold climate of the world. And to survive this journey we need to keep our fire burning through walking daily with Jesus and spending time in His presence.
Luke 24:32 says that after the resurrection Jesus met two of His disciples as they walked to a city called Emmaus, but they didn’t know Him. Later as He ate supper with them at their house, an interesting thing happened: “Their eyes were opened…they knew Him… and they said to one another, ‘Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?’” (vv. 31-32 NKJV).
When Jesus talks to us and reveals His Word to us, our hearts will burn with His fire.
We are therefore to maintain our spiritual fire through spending quality time with Him daily.
Leviticus 6:13 says ‘the fire shall ever be burning upon the altar it shall never go out.’
The climate in the world is growing colder daily. Different manner of sins and perversions have recently been emerging. Thus to be spiritually cold or lukewarm in such an environment is dangerous.
In Revelations 3:15-16 Jesus says ‘So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.’
We must be full of fire and fervency to avoid being disconnected from Jesus. And to maintain this fire, we must stay close to the Word.
Proverbs 26:20 says ‘Where no wood is, there the fire goes out.’ It is the entrance of The Word that gives light. Staying anointed requires that we stay in the Word.
When we stop putting in the wood, the fire is bound to go out. So to always maintain the fire of the Holy Ghost already kindled in us, we must constantly engage in the study of the Word of God.
Failure for any believer to maintain spiritual fire and fervency in this end=times will have dire consequences. We must always keep our fire burning brightly because that is what will keep the forces of darkness away.
Every moment we spend in the Word will count in sustaining the fire. The more we stay in God’s Word the more fire is imparted into us.
In the natural, to keep a fire burning you must tend it, stoke it, and keep fueling it. Likewise, spiritually let us keep our fire burning brightly, by maintaining a fervent prayer life and continually stoking our fire with the wood of God’s Word. This way, we remain always fervent in spirit and too hot for any devil to handle.
PRAYER: Father please help me to stand strong despite the spiritual coldness and fierce winds of oppositions in the world. I thank You Lord, for the grace to keep my fire burning in these end-times in Jesus Name.
QUOTE
God’s promises in Christ in your life may appear delayed, but never forget that delays are not denials. WORDBITE 222.