Notre Dame Fire – Another understanding

So this morning we wake and find the famous Notre Dame cathedral burning and much speculation about why it happened and who might be responsible especially in terms of the wave of Islamic attacks on Church buildings in France and other nations.

I felt the Lord speak to me this morning with a completely different perspective in that the fire is a prophetic sign to The Church (His Body).

These are the thoughts I sensed.

• The destruction of a man made religious edifice shows the Lord does not want our works but our hearts (our best works are are never enough, our heart is)
• Human pride is being replaced with a godly humility and full expression of His love
• The fire is a sign of His fire that He wants us to have; we need to baptised in fire; it is only is His fire that we have strength
• The fire is also a refining fire, burning off impurities and bringing His Church into the fullness of the image of Christ
• It is a time to be available for Him regardless of whether we think we are ready or not; old systems of man are being replaced by those that worship in spirit and truth

I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it… Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily. (Galatians 2:19-21, The Message)

The transformational nature of the Lord’s fire brings a holy and consecrated life.  It is His grace that sets us free.  It also gives us the freedom to take up our cross daily.

Jesus preached the shortest sermon ever “Follow Me” and that is the call now for us to follow Him wholly and holy.  So will you follow Him?