The fire within me

Have you ever had a fire within you?  I have!  This time it ain't been so good.  I have let this fire consume me and move me.  It has spread from deep within me to other areas of my life.  I have allowed something petty to grow, to multiply and affect others.

I finally last night was quiet enough to hear that still, small voice wooing and convicting.  The Holy Spirit was trying to tell me something and I had to settle down to hear.  I had let this issue become top priority and it didn't matter what I was doing, it was the top dog in my mind(what little mind is there).  

That still, small, convicting voice was telling me that if I was to have a fire in me that it should be the fire of Jesus.  The fire within me should be uplifting and full of grace not petty and malicious!  I had to stop right then and ask for forgiveness and to change the fire into a light for Jesus.

What lights your fire??  

Isaiah 1:30-31

New International Version (NIV)

³⁰ You will be like an oak with fading leaves,
    like a garden without water.
³¹ The mighty man will become tinder
    and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
    with no one to quench the fire.”

Luke 11:35-36

New International Version (NIV)

³⁵ See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.³⁶ Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.”