“Lord Jesus, open the Scriptures to us; make our hearts burn while you speak to us.” I am often amazed and filled with such wonder when God spiritually uses us, all of us as His holy instruments to gather light and wisdom, to record the loving responses and answers to our prayers and to become lifesaving scrolls and sacred journals to document God’s everlasting word. God graciously uses us as instruments to reveal His holy, sacred presence, to provide others with gentle reminders of the healing power of His word and provide the lifesaving remedy His word brings to those who are open to His will and receptive to the life changing truth His word always provides. God graciously uses us in spiritual ways to record and recite His words to those who need to hear or read them, and to respond to those who trustingly cry out to God for the remedy His life-giving gifts bring to broken hearted, poor in spirit, sin sick sinners like ourselves. God graciously includes us and faithfully calls upon each of us to gather His wisdom and capture His insights to instruct those who have become deaf to His presence and to announce His word and share His divine message to those needing spiritual formation or lack spiritual direction. God desires to use us to bring hope to those who faithfully cry out to Him in their need and heal those who do not know how to ask or pray or have exhausted the patience to do so. God uses us in such wonderful ways that we can become holy instruments in God’s hands, bringing light to those in darkness and love and newness of life to those who seriously need Him. God’s words burn inside of us as a purifying fire burning away all that is useless, hurtful, or not helpful in building up His kingdom and presence inside each of us and outside of us as well. God’s word heals brokenness caused by foolishness and hurtfulness caused by the selfishness of others. His word is like a gentle fire that radiates warmth, comforts souls, heals division and consoles us when we need a gentle glow to provide light to our journey and insight to keep going. God’s word is often compared to a seed that needs a little heat to break open and be set ablaze like a furnace to spread and grow. Open your heart and life to Scripture. God speaks to lighten your load, melt away your sadness and set your heart on fire.
