This post has been inspired by a couple of things. I am taking a medication that can cause hot flashes as a side effect. The last couple of days I have been experiencing those, and it has made me fairly uncomfortable. Especially in the wee small hours of this morning when I couldn't sleep because I was hot. Those flashes reminded me of a sermon I heard a couple of weeks ago. The message was about surrendering everything to God. At one point he said that we should not be on fire for God because a fire is easily put out. We need to be sold out instead.
So as I was burning up this morning and not sleeping, I thought about that message. I think my Christian walk is often like a hot flash. It comes and I am gung-ho and ready but then it passes and I go on about Erin's merry way. It is like that fire that can be doused quickly. I need to work on being sold out instead of being this fire that flashes here and there but doesn't steadily burn. I have not been (at least in a long time) an eternal flame, and there is no way God is pleased with my "flashy" attitude. Hopefully we can begin working on that now that the problem has been diagnosed.
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