Evening: Psalm 33; Zechariah 4:1-14; Matthew 3:1-12
Who doesn’t love a fire? It’s comforting; nothing quite compares to a home heated by wood fires, as ours is. However, when John talks about Jesus baptizing us ‘with fire’ or gathering his wheat and burning the chaff ‘with unquenchable fire’, that fire starts to sound dangerous. Then, when I read it again, I realize that no person is burned, not I nor anyone else, only life’s chaff, stuff we no longer need, the dry waste of our lives ... Then, the Spirit’s fire sounds as comforting as the one in my living-room. Burn, I say! Burn! Clean things up!
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