Fire Prevention Week and Month in October. A time to reflect on those service people that do a job that no one else wants to do. It is to risk their lives daily for you and I, to keep us safe in this world from the fires that burn in the night and through the fields, woods, streets and buildings of our world. They do more then fight fire but rescue people from wrecked vehicles, mountain ledges, ditches, rivers, and occasionally a tree.
When the last time you thank a fire fighter. When the last time you took time to lend support for our brave men and women in fire gear and even the rescue squad. No one thinks of these people until they need to call 911. Until the hair dryer sets the bed on fire, or the meal on the stove caught the kitchen on fire. No one thinks of these men until their car is crushed and they are unable to move because they are entrapped in a vehicle. No one thinks of the fire fighter until it is them in trouble.
Thank God for the fire fighter and the rescue squad members that choose to dedicate and risk their lives to the people of this world. Thank God for the good Samaritan that said I will take you to wherever you can be cared for, instead of leaving you on the roadside to die. Thank God for those ladder climbers and mountain climbers that train to propel to your location. Thank God for the helicopter that took you off a roof, or out of the middle of a body of water. Thank God for these people that are brave enough to try, for they do not always get right, but they keep on trying. As long as these people are in the world there be less death in places that should know death.
There is another special fire fighter to remember it is also that men and women that work hard to keep you out of hell. They share the Gospel, by giving you hope if you will only believe in Jesus. Your eternity secure upon belief, but belief is only part of the picture. The strive the goal of those that believe and follow Jesus is to love and obey God and to follow after His spirit the Holy Spirit, that one is sealed/marked with until the time of death or Christ return. Let us honor first our Savior and then those that share the gospel of Jesus along with those fire fighters of this earth that helps give you one more chance to be saved before your death. What are you going to do before you die, what are you doing right now to prevent seeing the fires of hell. Only you can decide to follow Jesus, only you can decide to believe. Only you can put on your wall an escape route to get outside encase of a fire? Only you can put up a fire extinguisher or fire detector in your home? Can you pray, can you follow God's word? Can you follow after the Spirit of God today? Keep the fire of hell out of your home.
