Fire, Fire!

 

It had been a quiet night at home. Around 9 PM we sat down to enjoy a little “who done it” on TV. At 10 PM we heard the quiet knock on our front door. Our next door neighbors were at our door looking a little shaken with a fire extinguisher in their hands.

Our recycling bins that were on the street for pick-up the next morning had been on fire. The neighbors saw the flickering of fire in their windows, grabbed their fire extinguisher and went to investigate. Thank God!

The fire was within 2 feet of our car and a neighbor’s car.

Our theory is that someone flicked their burning cigarette into the bin holding a lot of cardboard. (We have no idea if we are right.)

The baffling part of this for me is that we were so close. We were in the room in our house closest to the sidewalk where the bins were and we saw nothing. Not light or flickering or anything!

Sadly, I fear how many other situations are like this. Something might as well be up in flames in front of us and we see nothing because our eyes and minds are absorbed with the things of the world. (We try to watch “good” TV but the truth is that very little is being produced for American entertainment that is “clean” from a Christian perspective.)

All of the Covid 19 events in the last 16 months seem like a raging fire to me. We have been lied to by people in positions of responsibility, the main-stream media seems to have been bought by people whose interests do not include the average Joe citizen, and the medical community seems to be divided over the “shot” (I have been informed by reputable doctors that it cannot be called  a vaccine because of the mRNA factor).

Lost jobs, lost companies, lost lives by the anxious, depressed or lonely, as well the elderly who have died because they were not protected in the nursing homes who followed government mandates, you know the list.

(There is also the raging “fire” of abortion happening right before our eyes.)

My point is that as Christians who are to love the Lord with our whole minds, we cannot be sitting back pretending there is not a fire in our midst that we need to put out (or at least try to). I am very thankful for neighbors who saw our recycling fire and acted. But, we cannot wait for or expect our “neighbors” to make things right while we sit back and piously join another Bible study (which are a good thing but not the only thing) and watch some TV.

Read the real news, check out the VAERS report for yourself. Call a lie a lie and don’t support those telling them.

What needs to change in our own spheres of influence? Who do we need to write to regarding legislation? How resistant must we be to the edicts that may come from a “variant?” (Which my alternative news sources say is causing fewer deaths than Covid 19 did and its death rate was less than 1/3 of 1% of those who got the virus.)

God warns complacent women in Isaiah 32 that trouble will come because of their complacency; “Rise up, you women who are at ease, Hear my voice; you complacent daughters, Give ear to my speech. In a year and some days you will be troubled, you complacent women; For the vintage will fail, The gathering will not come. Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, And gird sackcloth on your waists. Isaiah 32:9-11.

In our comfort, are we ignoring the ramifications for future generations to come? There is a big fire right in front of us and we are too busy with other things to put it out. Shame on us.