THE FIRE OF GOD

God is holy. "...our God is a consuming fire" (Heb.12:29). But God wants you also to be holy (1 Peter 1: 16), and He wants His holy fire to burn in you also.

THE BURNT OFFERING
Firstly, in the Tabernacle of God spoken of in the Book of Exodus, the fire of God burnt upon the brazen altar on which was offered the burnt offering, the first of the offerings. "... This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out" (Lev .6:9, 13).

This burnt offering showed the complete surrender, consecration, obedience and devotion of Christ to the Father. Everything was burnt to ashes (v.1 0). The ashes signified that the fire had made full appropriation. There was nothing more left, which could be burnt. God had received fully what He wanted.

Do you know, beloved, how this fire of devotion and full consecration was burning and burning in the life of the Lord Jesus?

Is it burning in your life also?

Do you also want to be burnt to ashes?

In suffering, sorrow, sickness, opposition, persecution, misunderstanding and in a multitude of other painful situations, does that fire of devotion to God burn continually and ever increasingly in you?

Are you willing to become completely humbled and exhausted of all natural strength and reduced to ashes?

Are you willing to serve your Lord without asking for a reward, without a murmur, without a sigh?
Note that the fire upon the altar had to burn always.

Do you forget the Lord sometimes and go after worldly pleasure?

Do you get discouraged and drop away sometimes from the work which the Lord has given you?

The fire has to burn always and go on burning until that blessed morning when the Sun of righteousness will arise and the Lord will come (Mal.4:2).

THE INCENSE
Secondly, the fire of God burnt upon the golden altar of incense. The smoke of the incense stands for the prayer of the saints (Rev.5:8; 8:3,4). It ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. That angel represents the High Priest Aaron who had to burn perpetual incense before the Lord (Ex.30:8). We also have a High Priest Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens, Who ever liveth to make intercession for us (Heb.7: 25,26).

Do you know, saints, how the fire of prayer and intercession burned in the life of our Lord? He often continued all night in prayer (Luke 6:12). He prayed with strong crying and tears (Heb.5: 7).

Does that fire of prayer and intercession burn in your life also?

Consider the prayer life of Paul (Gal.4: 19) and of Epaphras his co-worker (Col.4: 12). If you neglect your prayer life you are sinning against the Lord (1 Sam. 12:23). Quench not the Spirit (1Thess.5: 19). May the incense of fervent prayer and intercession ascend up daily in your life unto the Lord.

THE CANDLESTICK
Thirdly, the fire of God burned upon the seven lamps of the golden candlestick. These are the lamps of testimony. Jesus is the light of the world, and God wants you also to shine as lights in this world of darkness. "...ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1 :8).

If the fire of God is burning upon your altar of consecration and if the incense of your prayer and intercession is ascending before God out of the angel's hand, then it will be easy for you to be the Lord's faithful witness. The fire of God will burn in your heart and the light of God will shine upon your face.

May God's holy fire burn continually in you.

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