Are You a Firefighter?

Read 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

As a kid I often remember being asked - what do you want to be when you grow up? And I'd hear other kids answers - doctor, police officer, and some would say a firefighter. All noble and good professions but this last one is something Christians are told in scripture not to be; not professionally, but spiritually.

Read 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28 and you'll see we're told not to put out the fire of the Holy Spirit in our lives. In other words, as believers and followers of Christ we have the Holy Spirit living in us. So we have this power to do amazing things for God because we have Christ's resurrection power indwelling us. Paul writes this warning to help us remember we have this amazing power but we also have the power to put out the Spirit's fire.

How do we do this? By living a self-led vs. a Spirit-led life. Jesus tells us the Holy Spirit will come into our lives, be our Comforter and our Helper, and enable us to live powerfully for the Kingdom of God. The ultimate question becomes are we going to live on God's Holy Spirit power or try and do life living on our own limited power.

Let's not try to just get by in life, instead let's live in such a way that when others see our lives they'll be like the prophets of Baal when they encountered the Most High God in the life of Elijah and the prophets of God who said: Your Lord, He is God! This is only possible when we're not fighting the fire of God that's inside every believer of Jesus Christ. Friends, make a decision today to be Holy Spirit led in every part of your life.