The Burning Ones

As followers of Jesus, we were intended to do life together or as a community of believers.  In the garden before the fall, God said that it wasn't good for man to be alone.  Adam experienced God without any limitations and yet it still wasn't good for him to be by himself.  You and I were meant to flourish and grow in the context of community.

The promise of Isaiah 55:11 is that the word of God does not return void without accomplishing the purpose for what it was sent.  One of the challenges we deal with is learning to see and think from Heaven's reality.  What changes our perception must be the word of God.  

As believers, we were created to live from a posture of rest.  What enables a person to live from a posture of rest is when they are rooted in beloved identity.  What would it be like to no longer strive for approval? If you are in Christ then you are fully accepted by Father and you too can live from rest.

Genesis chapter 1 tells us that the earth brought forth vegetation, plants and trees which produced after their own kind with seed in them.  If creation reproduced after its own kind and we are born again of imperishable seed according to 1 Peter chapter 1, how much more should we resemble the seed we are born of?

In Acts chapter 8, persecution has come upon the church as never before.  However, how the early church responds to it caused the gospel to spread into surrounding regions.