If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. (ESV)
Christmas break is here, and there are parts of the break I am greatly looking forward to. I hope to be able to grow a lot spiritually during faitwalkers and push myself to physical limits during strong and wild. However, other parts of the break are staged to pose a fairly large spiritual threat. Whenever spending significant time with my family away from fellowship, I always experience sort of a set back in becoming more like Christ. Sin creeps into my life and I revert back to my old patterns. Instead of hungering for more time to spend in the word, it feels laborous to turn off the TV and computer and just have even a short quiet time (even though almost always when I do take the time I realize how much I love spending time at the feet of my savior).
My prayer is that this would not be the case for any of us. I am praying that just like Jeremiah, you and I would have a fire burning in us that we cannot hold in. This is the reason for the name of 'Uncontainable Fire' for this blog. I think we can use this blog as a team as sort of a tool to encourage each other with the word. Feel free to post quiet time thoughts, prayer requests, awesome God stories, etc. In fact, I ask that as you check your e-mail, also check this blog and add to it. I deeply desire to stay close to all of you over the break and I am glad that we have this tool to help us to do this over the break.
Praise God! His faithful love endures forever!
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