Daily Reading: Jeremiah Chapter 17 thru Chapter 20

Key Verses: Jeremiah 20:8-9

Remember someone telling you a secret when you were young and how badly you wanted to tell somebody?  You looked for the first excuse to unleash it?  You even led conversations and tilted them in a direction for the person to ask you certain questions?  Why?  Because it was something that stirred in you that you just could not hold in.  You put family and friendships on the line to tell it.  You even put your own reputation on the line to tell it.  Even with all of that -- you still had to say something! 

For Jeremiah, the word of God was like a burning fire that he had to release.  He couldn't hold it in if he wanted to.  No one is willing to hold their hand in fire for long.  The word was so strong in Jeremiah that he shouted it aloud continuously with conviction.  In order for the word to be consuming fire to Jeremiah, he first had to consume it.  The word has to get in us before it can affect us.  God has given you some of the juiciest secrets known to mankind and released you to tell the world.  Have you been holding it in?  Do you not feel a flame?  Ask God to blow on your flame and lend yourself to His service.  Fresh wind fresh fire come quickly!