"KEEP THE SPIRITUAL FIRE BURNING!"
Lesson 3

This is the third and final lesson regarding the fore given subject. In the first two installments I told of the man who turned boiling water into snow with the flick of his wrist. Tossing a pot of boiling water into the air, the water instantly turned to snow. The man in the story was in a place where the temperature was -23? Fahrenheit. While the ambient temperature was very cold the water remained hot while it was on the stove.

In lesson 1 we found that one reason for a Christian's cooling off is, simply, that it is easier to do nothing that to be busy at work in God's kingdom. You see it takes a lot more energy to boil water than to cool it. In lesson 2, the failure to fellowship with like-minded Christians in the worship assemblies and other meetings cause us to lose our ardor for the mission. As long as the trillions of water molecules were together in the pot they stayed warm. When they went their separate ways they cooled, very rapidly.

In Lesson 3 we will observe that someone "stirred" the pot. That water didn't become snow without someone agitating the pot! If the pot had been left on the fire it would have stayed warm, but it was moved, stirred, agitated. This resulted in the decrease of heat and the increase of cold. Agitation in the church often has the same results. Paul told the church at Philippi, "Do all things without complaining and disputing," (Philippians 2:14). He said in Colossians 3:13 "bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do." Forgiveness is important to maintaining our spiritual fire.

We all know what it means when a body has "assumed room temperature." Warmth equals life. Cold equals death. Let us do all to avoid assuming room temperature and do everything in our power to maintain our spiritual fire!