Photo Credit: Magnus S
Are your coals burning hot of dying out? Give thanks still.
This is December; and how does that make you feel?
At the tail end of a blazing year, lie the red hot embers of the final
months - the ember months. Like the red hot coals that remain after a
fire, the ember months emerge with anxiety, rush, and most times
dissatisfaction and disappointment. But most importantly there's
thanksgiving - thanksgiving for what lies ahead. It depends on how you
look at it.
You can view it as the fading remains of the past; past emotions, past
failures, past victories. Or you can look at it these hot embers as
the start of a new fire. A new beginning. For every ending is just as
well a new beginning.
So instead of watching the red hot coals die out into cold ash, blown
away by the whistling wind, why not fan them into new flames. You
think your dreams are dead, that your strength has reached its end,
that your failure is final.
You only need to look into the face of the red hot embers - what do
you see? Do you see the red hot remains of a formerly vibrant fire, or
the red hot coals that precede new 'hope-full' flames? The choice is
yours. Where there is life, there is hope.
Isaiah 38:18 - 19
For the dead cannot praise you; they cannot raise their voices in
praise. Those who go down to the grave can no longer hope in your
faithfulness. Only the living can praise you as I do today. Each
generation tells of your faithfulness to the next. NLT
Comments