Feeling the Heat

Recently our neighbour had a fire destroy their shed.  Though their shed was only three feet away from ours, the flames did not spread to our side of the fence. But the heat of the fire melted the exterior siding of the back of our house.

I don't think we realize how influenced we are as Christians by the turmoil around us.  Perhaps we think that if we just build a wall at the right spot, the flames won't reach us - but we don't stop to think that there is heat that can hurt us from a distance.

My neighbour's advice in the midst of the fire was for us to keep pouring water on our own shed, the part of our property that was closest to the flames.  After all was said and done, our shed was still standing.   

What do you do to be refreshed by God's Love?  How do you curb the heat that can destroy?

Philippians 2:12b-16a (NIV)
"...continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose.  Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life..."