The Elements 3

FIRE

What do we think about when we think about fire? We think of destruction. Oh! the danger, the power, the speed of this element. It makes me think of passion. Passion can be an extremely dangerous thing, our heart laches on to something and it grabs hold with a death grip. Passion begins at the heart, and then spreads to the brain. It makes itself come across as indispensable, as the only thing that truly gives us purpose in this life (crazy as that may sound, when you are in a passion this thought comes as easily as breathing). We are creatures of feeling, we feel bad so we act bad, we feel good so we act good, that is why we need faith. “Faith is not a feeling, more often than not, it is used to raise us above our feelings.”-D.L. But this does not mean that passion across the board is wrong. When studying the word of God and we start to get excited at finally figuring out a tricky point, that is the growth of a passion, a passion to study the Word of God. Does this mean we can only study the word of God if we are feeling passionate about it? Nope. Because any human being on earth knows that we cannot just pull a feeling of passion out of nowhere, the point of this is not to say you have to have passion to do something, just to say that passion (when directed the correct way) can fuel a fire of study, questions, and excitement that will help us build a firm foundation for the rest of our life (1 Corinthians 3).