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Consuming Fire, godly character, heavenly treasures, Holy Spirit Fire, incinerable works, inconsistencies, Jerry-building, junk piles, mix-match traits, patchwork structures, reduced to ashes, rubbish, The Foundation, trash, useful works, useless works
Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. ~ 1 Corinthians 3:12-15, NASB
See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire. ~ Hebrews 12:25-29, NASB
Burning
Fire
Shut
Up . . .
Ragingly bursts out
Unapologetically . . . no
Stammering
Stuttering
Hesitating . . .
Holy Spirit
Judging works’
Qualities, if
Gold
Silver
Gemstones:
Diamond, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald . . .
Or if
Hay
Wood
Straw (stubble) . . .
Former qualities’
Valuable blocks
Solid structures
Well laid
Well joined
Well cemented
Together;
But then
Topped with
Latter qualities’
Junk piles
Patchwork structures
Poorly laid
Poorly crammed
Poorly heaped
Together . . .
Unscrupulous workers
Rebellious children
Jerry-building;
Badly adding on to
The Foundation
Interiorly laid
So God-kind of
Morality
Righteousness
Holiness
Can spring forth . . .
Principled conducts
Incongruously manifested
As carnality’s
Unscrupulousness
Corruption
Impurities . . .
Christian life inconsistencies:
Mix-Match traits
Producing reduction
Unsought—ashes;
Consuming Fire’s
Day of revealing,
Testing, purging
Worthlessly sown
Incinerable works . . .
Holy Fire God’s
Benevolent Bonfire
Removing trash;
Saving unfaithful,
Disobedient saints from
Everlasting burning . . . .
– I finished this poem on 2-20-2017
