DOES GOD'S MESSAGE BURN LIKE A FIRE IN OUR HEARTS?

 

     Hello, again. I’m Arlen Yoder from the Soulwinnersr.us website. Remember again this Holiday season that the angels in heaven rejoice when a loved one or friend gives their heart to Jesus.
     My question today is, "Does God’s Message Burn Like A Fire In Our Hearts?” Jeremiah in the Old Testament was called “The Weeping Prophet” because of his sorrow over the sin, suffering, and impending judgment of the nation of Judah. In Jeremiah 20, he was beaten by a temple priest, if you can believe it, because the priest disputed Jeremiah’s prophetic pronouncements. Jeremiah said he was tired of being “a laughingstock” among his own people, to the point that he questioned his calling from God to try to turn his people around. He lamented the following in Jeremiah 20:8-9.

“For whenever I speak, I proclaim, 'Violence and destruction!’ So the word of the Lord has become my constant disgrace and derision. I say, “I won’t mention him or speak any longer in his name.” But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones. I become tired of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.”

     So Jeremiah expressed his desire to stop being God’s conduit to His people. But it was a hopeless cause, because when God gave him a message, it became a “fire burning” in his heart. He could do nothing less than speak it.
     Is that how we are as God’s people? Does God’s message burn like a fire in our hearts? Does it get to the point within us that we become so tired of holding it in that we can’t prevail, and we must tell others?
     See you next time.