The Fire

I was thinking about hard times that we all go through. This post will be pretty brief but I thought it was pretty good.
I have learned that the Forestry Department will sometimes burn the forest on purpose. It's a controlled fire of coarse but the purpose in the fire is to burn out all of the under brush and weeds so the it doesn't take over everything else in the forest. Not only that, if a wild fire were to break out it would be very hard to control. How does this relate to me you ask, well I'm glad you asked. Sometimes in life we have to go through the "fire" or the hard times. If we look to God during these times we know that he has it under control. Why we go through it is another great question that I'm so glad you asked. The fire that we go through help to burn out all of the crap that we don't need in our life. The bad attitudes, the emotional baggage, the financial struggles helps us to focus on the right thing (God) and get rid of the crap. We can see, if we pay attention to what God is trying to show us and get rid of it, it won't turn into a wild fire taking over our lives.