Devotional for the week – Sunday, September 15, 2024
THE FIRE WITHIN
Jesus began to explain everything that had been written about himself in the Scriptures.
Luke 24:27
“When the disciples saw who he was, he disappeared. They said to each other, ‘It felt like a fire burning in us when Jesus talked to us on the road and explained the Scripture to us” (Luke 24:31-32.
Don’t you love that verse? They knew they had been with Jesus because of the fire within them. God reveals his will by setting a torch to your soul. He gave Jeremiah a fire for hard hearts. He gave Nehemiah a fire for a forgotten city. He set Abraham on fire for a land he’d never seen. He set Isaiah on fire with a vision he couldn’t resist. Forty years of fruitless preaching didn’t extinguish the fire of Noah.
Mark it down: Jesus comes to set you on fire! He walks as a torch from heart to heart, warming the cold and thawing the chilled and stirring the ashes. He comes to purge infection and illuminate your direction.
From Grace for the Moment (Vol.1)
By Max Lucado