Your Flame

I believe God has given each and everyone of us our own unique flame. That passion that He brings into our lives when we surrendered to Him. What this flame represents is unique to us and reflects who God is to us. I call this a flame but some may call this our passion for God. This is the very thing that became a part of who we are when we asked Christ into our lives. It's what attracts some people to us and at the same time the thing that may repel some people or cause them to judge us. The trouble we as believers get into is when we try to mimic someone else's flame. We can evidently see how passionate that person is for God so we think if we do the same thing they're doing maybe our flame/passion will be as evident as theirs. This is where we can get in trouble because what we become is no longer honest and pure but rather fake; putting on an outward appearance all the while still being very lost on the inside. What we can't forget is that God is after our heart. He wants the decisions we make to come from a heart that loves Him and not because we are affraid of how others may judge us. God has made it clear that He does not see and judge things the way we do:
1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
You see the biggest mistake we can make is to not be authentic. To have our own unique expression of who God is in us and how that reflects on the outside of us. My prayer is that we as christians would find our own flame for God. And that we wouldn't try to look the same but that we would be uniquely who God has made us to be.

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Be Blessed!!