The Fire

By Odon Bulamba (summary only -8 March, 02)

Fire was created for our service, for example fire transforms our food so that we can eat it. When you are given meat that is cooked you will eat it with no problem, but if you are given raw meat your face will change. Will you eat raw meat? I don’t think so. It is the same with us who belong to the kingdom of God, when God presents us with a situation we have to decide if it needs fire or not. Some tribes in Africa can eat meat raw and they find it normal, but most people don’t. Meat that has been prepared has a different taste to meat that has not, and it is like the word of God. The word of God without fire is still the word of God but it has a very different taste to the one that has been touched by fire. Prayer that has fire is quite different to prayer that doesn’t have fire and the result is noticed in the taste. Meat that hasn’t be cooked is not easy to chew but meat that has been cooked is, and if you don’t have good teeth you will struggle to break it down to make it edible.

Where does fire come from? Can gas produce fire by itself? I have learnt that fire first started in Brazil, they would take two pieces of wood, rub it together and then you have fire. Two pieces of wood cannot produce fire by itself because you need a certain force to bring the two together. Also you can’t have any old piece of wood but only certain types. So what does this represent? Jesus said that He is the true vine and we are the branches (John 15:1-8). Will all know that wood comes from a tree and without a tree there can be no wood. If a tree has not been cut or dried it cannot be burnt. When a branch is cut it must be dried out before it can produce fire, so what is this covenant we have with our God? When we were born we were holy and perfect and we were in a world of eternity.

Once we arrived on earth God gave us a body but we cut our relationship with God and became sinners like a branch being cut from its tree. When we became sinners we needed something to dry us, and that is were the sun comes into it. When a child is born they usually cry and if it doesn’t cry then the nurse will probably wonder if it is alive. Why don’t children smile when they are born? It is because they suffer. When we as Christians entered this world our souls start crying because the devil is hurting us. If you are proud, people will hate you and in your heart anger will brew with a reply, and your soul will keep bringing you down while the devil leads your life. But there is a time when the sun will come, and as the Bible says the sun is for the good and evil.

Rain is given to good and evil men but when the sun comes out your soul will start drying. It means that the light will be with you and this light is the word of God. While reading the word of God you can get an idea about what sin is, and you will know what pleases God and what doesn’t. So when the sun enlightens us, it is up to us to decide what we will do. When God gives you the word it is up to you to accept this word or not, and whoever doesn’t receive the word will not to be transformed.

The sun never dies but we do and the word of God says it is there for eternity.