Reflections; God's Consuming Fire

Hey readers,

Scripture states in Hebrews 12:28-9 in the NKJV...

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and Godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire."

Here's my reflection from this particular passage of scripture: We each have different things that we will have to face in our lives and may be facing even today. Sometimes it may feel like we are losing everything that matters to us. There are several different situations that can make us feel this way and many times it leads to a great discouragement that begins to destroy the things that are important to us.

I cannot count the times that I have personally let the things of this world take control and have had to face the consequences that follow. I am never going to be perfect and I hate to say this, but neither will you :-). We will have to work through these things many times during our time here on this earth. One thing though, we must remember that those times we have only come for a season, and that while they may come many times throughout our lives, what we have here on earth is only a prelude to what God has in store for us in heaven.

One final word, remember that God is your consuming fire and that no matter what waters may come to blow your fire out, He has promised you something great and that HIS fire will never fade.

Take and eat of what the Lord gives you today,

M.E.

A Journey Anew; Building Character(s)

Hey everyone,

Let’s see, in the past week character profiling has been something very present on my idea list. I've been trying to figure out just what our character profiles would look like for “A Journey Anew.” Progress has been quite a bit more than it was thought to be at this point. I mean, come on it's only been a week since the idea came, but it's progressing all the same. Maybe God does have his hand on this after all.

We are getting more and more excited about this vision the Lord has given us. It will be interesting to see what happens once we begin putting our heads together and writing down stories God will give us; and it will soon take place :-). There is just a little more work to be done still.

In many ways I personally have felt caught in the middle, with my dream of becoming a writer on one side and my dream to share the good news with as many people as I can on the other. Bringing me finally to this Journey, the Lord has shown me that he has this for both my wife and I to take part in. It seems too exciting to even contemplate right now, but where these two dreams seemed to be the only thing gong for me, now I have another one being fulfilled before my eyes in having a wife to share it with. Through her I have been inspired to begin building my character as a writer as well as a follower of Christ.

My hope is that as time goes by, the both of us will be in the midst of something great, knowing that HE is there guiding our steps and showing us the way. While he is building our characters as writer/editor He will surely begin revealing all the different characters to us for our stories. Also, on the other side of the fence, I feel as we build the character profiles for this series, we ourselves will be taken on “A Journey Anew” and become better followers of HIM who SAVES.

Side Note;

With God taking us on this “Journey Anew” I'm beginning to think we will actually have the words "A Journey Anew" in the title somewhere, but we shall see. :-)

Keep looking back to see our updates on “A Journey Anew”....

Take and eat of Gods blessings for you always

and, remember, keep the Faith…

Matt & Traci

The Journey Anew

Readers,

Today marks the beginning of a new journey for my wife and I. We have been praying for a time about what God has for us to do and he has blessed us with a little picture of what we feel is to come.

I have long desired to be a writer as you all well know, I have been praying for direction as to what to write and how to write it. Through the past few months I have tried writing several different aspects of literature from short stories, to classics skits, to science-fiction, to blogging, to letters, and even as far as writing poetry (which I have to say I really enjoy writing but I'll mention more about that at a later date), and nothing seemed to strike me as "This is me, this is what I'm gong to write."

After what seemed like years, yesterday something simply just came to my mind and Traci (my wife) loved it. The thought of writing Historical Fictional Adventures from the Bible Times, in other words intertwining the gospel into historical short stories about the life of specific people in the ministry of Our Lord and Savior.

Seems strange that I'd pick something such as this, but there you have it. All the studies that the both of us did in college or on our own will come in handy on this journey. It will be interesting to include the historical information as accurately as possible while retaining the fictional aspect of each short story, but as I've stated we feel this is from the Lord. As we continue to pray about this when time permits we will begin writing down these many adventures and compiling all the information we can to bring them to life.

I even have a starting point with two characters I created while I was in school in the form of Nathaniel and Marcellus, with the Lord's help along with Traci's amazing editing skills, hopefully we will have some rough drafts in the next coming year to work towards getting published.

We shall see what the Lord has for us on this new Journey, updates will be posted here on my blog for those that may be interested.

Please pray for us as we both embark on this journey we feel the Lord has placed before us, they will always be appreciated, thanks so much.

May God bless you in the days a head,

M.E.