Keep the Fire Burning

At church a few weeks back they were singing 

"I Wish Somebody's Soul Would Catch on Fire".

I got to thinking about the camping trip we took the Friday before. It was the first time for Sarita to go camping. That is if you don't count when I was four months along and Jerry and I went to a church camp meeting and slept in a tent in July. 

During that song I just thought to myself that fire is not just going to happen. Just like our camp fire, it didn't just spring up. Jerry had to work to get it going. Which took my mind back to the last revival services we had at church, where the theme seemed to be "stir it up". So I looked it the back of my Bible under stir to study further. In second Timothy 1:6 I found this scripture:

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, 

which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

In my Bible under the commentary stir up the gift of God said to 

keep in full flame.

I thought again about that night camping. 

When the fire would die down Jerry would take the shovel and swing it back 

and forth feeding the fire oxygen, stirring it up.

Reading further in the amplified Bible:

In this first chapter Paul is writing to Timothy, remembering his "sincere and unqualified faith (the leaning of your entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness). A faith that was first in his grandmother, Lois, and his mother, Eunice. 

A faith that Paul is persuaded is in Timothy. 

Now look at verse six: That is why I would remind you to stir up 

(rekindle the embers of, fan the flame of, and keep burning) 

the gift of God (the inner fire) that is in you 

by means of the laying on of my hands 

(with those of the elders at your ordination). 

Drop down to verse 13-14: Hold fast and follow the pattern of wholesome and sound teaching which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard and keep (with the greatest care) the precious and excellency adapted (Truth) which has been entrusted (to you) by the Holy Spirit Who makes His home in us.

O God, let me take the greatest care with the gift of the 

Holy Ghost that you have given to me.