Faces

For many years I had the privilege of being a reserve police officer, worked on an ambulance, served a very short time with the fire department and the biggest chunk of time I sat in the dispatch center.  You hear all kinds of things related to the job.  Some things are superstition.  Some are just plain lies.  There are some that make you say, “Hum…”.

Someone shared with me one day that firefighting was once termed, “Dancin’ with the devil”.  He then told me that if you look at a picture of flames that somewhere within the flames you will see a satanic looking face.  We looked at a couple photos online at the departments photos.  We did see what he was talking about.  I don’t know that it works for all photos.

This all came back to mind when I was reading Isaiah 13:8, “And they shall be afraid:  pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth:  they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.”  The notes in my Bible program says that “flames” means faces of the flames.

If we who know Jesus Christ would ponder this for a little while I think it would energize us to reach out to win the world around us to Jesus Christ.  There is a real place called hell and people go there for eternity.  It is our responsibility to stand in their way and beg them to go with Jesus.

So, how are you doing?