Consuming Fire

I was reminded this morning where the Bible says, "Our God is a
consuming fire." Out our living room windows and across a small dirt
road, the grass was on fire. The flames were leaping high into the
air, and lots of smoke as the wind was fanning the flames and blowing
the fire away from us. My experience now in Africa tells me that all
the dry grass will quickly be burned up and within a couple of weeks
tufts of green grass will appear in the charred ground.

I think that is what the Bible means. Our God wants to burn up all
that is dead and worthless and dried up. When that happens it is hot
and dangerous. But the result is that then we have new living growth
that can come up where it was being choked by the old.
"Our God is a consuming fire."