Sparky #1

Sorry, I just couldn't think of anything for these that was as fun as "En-Tree." For some reason, I think Sparky is fun... but, if someone has a better name for this series, feel free to help.

One aspect of fire that I love and can't get over is it's ability to change things.

Nothing is the same after fire touches it, is around it, or comes after it.

Fire effects to air when it burns, it can and does destroy, disfigure or change the thing that is being engulfed in the flames and once soil has been exposed to fire, the pH levels and nutrients that are left behind dictate the quality, type and size of plants that grow there.

Plastic melts, paper disappears, wood is turned to ash, our skin is disfigured, scarred or in some ways healed.

Regardless of the object that is being providing "fuel" for the fire, things are DIFFERENT after fire is present.

Jesus was that way.

No matter where He went, no matter what He did, no matter who He was around... things were different after he showed up; blind people could see, lame people could walk, deaf and mute could hear and speak, and those possessed with multiple demons, became evangelists.

Many other "cult" leaders (I use that word, because to everyone else, Christianity would have appeared as a cult; look up the definition of a cult, if you need) have come and gone, leaving no real stamp on the world. Sure, Charles Manson, Jim Jones, Shoko Asahara, John Smith, David Koresh, (and even Tom Cruise, in his own respect... well, I don't respect him... but maybe you do) etc. are remembered, and may have made a "stamp" on our memories, but none of them have altered history forever. None of them changed EVERYTHING.

I think this begs the question/command: "If we are to be 'Little Christs,' as 'Christians,' should we not be changing things?"

What I mean is, are you leaving the world a different place? Is there a noticeable difference in the places, people and situations you have been a part of?

Go change something; move a rock, drop a dollar somewhere, tell someone you love them for absolutely no reason, buy the guy behind you in the drive-thru line's food, wave at everyone on the road as you drive around, take someone out to eat, call your mom, call your dad, call your sibling, make a paper air plane, give a homeless guy a hug, tell a cop "Thanks!"

Change YOUR world and you change THE world.