Fires

Have you ever fought with your spouse?  Of course, you have, you're married!!  How often do those fights begin with a tiny flare up?  That tiny flare up that goes unchecked suddenly becomes a full blown wild fire...endangering lives, property, and history.

This morning as I (Josh) was driving to work I passed a barn that was on fire.  Fire trucks and emergency personnel were on sight.  I don't know if it was an accident or the owners wanted to burn it down.  Either way, the fire that burned it to the ground began with a single match or spark.  Something tiny and insignificant on its own when added to a fuel source becomes a raging inferno.  How many of us have been there before?  What do we do when it blows up in our faces?

We are in the same boat as you are, friend.  We don't always do the RIGHT thing from the beginning.  Most of the time it takes us a little time before we realize what's happening.  As great as it would be to fix it from the get-go, we can stop the inferno at any time we want.  How?  By removing the fuel source!

Maybe it's your spouse feeding the fire or maybe it's you.  Maybe it's the devil or your circumstances.  It doesn't matter who is the arsonist...YOU have the power to remove the fuel.  Removing the fuel source might be for you to stop reacting in kind to their hurtful words or actions.  Or it might be getting alone with God for Him to check your spirit.  Or it might be shutting down the enemies advances upon your marriage with some spiritual warfare.

A firefighter when battling a blaze knows that its not enough to just throw water at a fire.  He knows that you must remove the source of fuel so that the fire can die.  If you are facing a raging inferno within your marriage, become the firefighter and put it out.  You might have started it or just a victim but YOU can stop it.

Smokey the Bear says, "Only YOU can prevent wildfires."  Who knew a bear could speak such wisdom?

Josh and Serena