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Light My Fire

Posted by Ben | | 5:58 PM

Luke 8:16-18

16"No one lights a lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. 17For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. 18Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him."

When I first read this passage it confused me! Because it sounds like God is telling us that he will take away everything! And then I listened to a message by Judah Smith and in his message Pastor Judah explained some things and then I began to think and so I decided to write this blog about this passage.

I think that our mindset and mentality going into church many times is that we go to church to get "Convicted" from something that the pastor says or we read our bibles to get "Convicted" about something that God reveals to us in his word.

In this story Jesus uses the example of a Lamp and the Conviction is the fire or the spark that lights the lamp.

I think that many times we come into church and say GOD LIGHT MY FIRE! And after he lights our fire it goes out because we don't act upon it!

Because we take this fire home with us and we put it under our bed's and when you put a fire next to a matress creates a fire that is why in verse 18 it says

"whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him."

That the lamp we thought we had didn't use it properly and it turned into a fire

Later on in this passage in verse 21 Jesus's mother and brothers came to see him and after his disciples told him that he replied saying this

"He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice."

A key part of this verse is that Jesus uses the analogy of Family which means that the people who hear God's word and act upon it are highly valued in the kingdom!
The reason our fire goes out is because we get a word and all we do is hide it! Instead of taking it and using it and putting into practice which would make us less popular we choose to hide it and let it go out because we can go back to church next wensday and get a brand more fire!

Let us not be a people who hear the word and do nothing about it let us be people who hear the word and put it into practice.

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