Firewalker

I am going to start out with the same sentence most new bloggers say...I have never blogged before and I don't have a clue what to say. Since I am not usually short of words, I doubt this blog will either. :-) I think I am more worried that I will say too much and step on toes! Sooo...Before I get started, I will apologize for all the misspellings, bad grammer and foot in my mouth comments that I will say.

I named this blog... Firewalker! I got this word from Beth, who got it from God (while she was doing dishes none the less)...Since my sweet friend told me this name I have not been able to get this word off my brain. I have prayed about it, talked about it, and given it ALOT of thinking time. Every time I think of Firewalker I think about the refining fire of God. So I decided today to look up about the refining fire of God and came across I Peter 1:6-8.

"In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith-of greater worth than gold, which periches even though refined by fire-may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy..."

When I broke this down and thought about it...is when I decided that I am a FIREWALKER...and I have a feeling when I break this down for you, YOU will figure out YOU just might be a FIREWALKER too.

Let's look at "In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer all kinds of trials." I know for me...I have suffered trials of MANY kinds, how about you? It took the last couple of years of the most heart breaking betrayls to prove the genuineness of my faith. I had always said I trusted God...and in all honesty I did trust God with everyone else but with me and my "stuff"...I wasn't so sure. It wasn't until I learned to trust God with my "stuff" and rejoice through the trials that my faith bloomed. I realized all the trials... These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith-of greater worth than gold, which periches even though refined by fire-may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. I NEVER knew what true praise was until I allowed myself to surrender my whole self...the confident, scared, outspoken, and hidden parts of me. Totally surrendered I could praise the God who was walking with me through the refining fire. What an unbelievable feeling it is!!!! I can truly say that "Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see you are filled with an inexpressable and glorious joy..." There are times even I a walked through the fire and at times still walking, there are times I am overwhelmed by joy about my Father and how faithful He has been and is to me.

I KNOW many of you that are reading this blog have walked through the refining fire and have felt the heat...not only of the fire but of the warmth of your Father hand holding yours. If you have...YOU are a FIREWALKER. Like I said at the beginning of this blog I don't know where God will lead me (us) as I write this blog...but I invite you to join me and encourage you to invite others as we walk through the refining fire with our Father as the impurities rise to the surface, get scraped off and we start to shine!