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Subject:		The Christian fireman
Name:		Mr. D
Date Posted:		Jan 28, 05 - 4:08 PM
Message:		I read this, and it touched my heart. I hope it will touch yours as well. The Author is unknown. "The Christian fireman" If you have never taken the opportunity to read through 2 Timothy 2, I suggest you give it a read. As you move through Paul's encouragement to "endure hardship" found in verse 3, he goes on to describe the good Christian soldier, the Christian athlete and the Christian farmer. He then says, "consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things" (verse 7). Paul challenges us to "consider" and build on his statements regarding examples of steadfastness and endurance. Well, I have come to understand that I, too, must more than ever endure hardship as the good Christian firefighter whose job is to set my focus on "running toward the flame" of adversity in a world that is smoldering in hatred. But not simply to endure, but to embrace the needs of others. And no, it will not necessarily be a five-alarm fire, or look like a skyscraper. I must recognize that the "ground zero" God has granted me to approach is within my orb of responsibility. On September 11, I learned that the most important equipment that a fireman carries is not his hose or his ax or his ladder. The most important piece of equipment is his heart. Without "the heart" of a fireman, all the other paraphernalia is meaningless. Without heart, the fireman is never able to go into the life-and-death combat of his daily routine. But with heart, all things are possible. Christ cut right to the heart of the matter long ago regarding the kind of person He was looking to recruit as a "Christian fireman." He said in Mark 8:35, "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it." On September 11, the powerful message of Isaiah 30:21 came to me in a very real sense in the form of a Brooklyn accent out of the smoke of a darkened hallway saying, "This is the way, walk you in it." It was the voice of a fireman. That voice is now silenced, but hopefully the thought still lives inside me as I move toward a different type of flame, knowing why and for whom I live. When the smoke clears from this particular tragedy, I must be prepared to move step by step in one direction. Up!
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Re: The Christian fireman by DragonSlayer · Jan 28, 05 - 10:32 PM

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