Where did fire come from? Or more specifically, who was the very first person to actually make fire? I asked my husband that one night as we sat outside watching our outdoor fireplace work its magic. He guessed that lighting hit a tree at some point and set it on fire. That’s how someone got the idea for fire at least. But that was not what I was really wondering about. Who figured out how to make it themselves? Maybe using flint stone or rubbing dried sticks together?
I got lost wondering what that moment might have been like for them. Did they get an overwhelming sense that this one thing, the ability to make a fire, would overwhelmingly, literally, profoundly change everything? Because surely it did.
Nothing was ever the same after that. Darkness could now be invaded by light. Bone-chilling weather could be robbed of its foul affects. Those had to be two HUGE things right there. But what about the new food possibilities?! Cooked food! No more cold fish, raw potatoes, or “room” temperature only liquids. Plus fire would help forge new and better tools. Fire would make so many things that were impossible and unimaginable quite possible for everyone. It is no exaggeration – EVERYTHING had changed.
What was the last thing that happened in your life that quite literally changed everything in your world? For my husband and I it was the adoption of 3 Russian orphans two and a half years ago. But what was it for you?
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8) In my wonderings about events that change everything, this verse came to mind. And those two things together felt really good. I mean really good. True, Jesus came and that changed everything. He is a life-changer for sure. But He’s also “the solid rock on which I stand.” Very cool. Everything can change AND we have the unchangeable, everlasting arms of God to hold us up. Yeah, God!
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