"The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out."
Leviticus 6:13
This struck me today, not as a rule about meat offerings, but as an idea... like making sure our faith never goes out. Too often I think we replay the whole conversion process within ourselves, finding faith and belief within ourselves, and feeling that spark of connection with God, but then not sustaining it and moving on to deeper faith and further lessons, but instead re-introducing doubt and fear and confusion, and having to go through the process over again to regain that spark. Instead, we should be feeding that spark, turning it into a fire and keeping it alive, and keeping us connected with the divine. I'm not suggesting arson here, but who can glory too much in the Lord, right? If we come out of it with a controlled burn, even if it is a raging inferno... that's all good. We just probably shouldn't burn or melt the things around us. :)
In all seriousness, we can be, symbolically, burning brightly with the Spirit every day, if we will talk to God about how to feed that spark and build it up. We don't need to reload and revisit doubt over and over again... this is just where we begin, and conversion is the trailhead, but the rest of the path is long, and sometimes hard, but always amazing. Today, let's keep the fire of faith ever burning, and never, ever go out.
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