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In the fire line

by Elizabeth Price

 

Many years ago, in the middle of the night, we were threatened by a bush-fire. It was as fierce as it was unexpected.  Our daughter’s two horses were in a paddock right in the path of the fire.  It was crisis time.  The horses would surely be lost if nothing was done to save them.

 

I woke my daughter and spoke very quietly, “Put off your pyjamas, get dressed and bring your horses down to the house.”  I knew they would follow her to wherever she took them.

 

She told me afterwards that the tone in my voice terrified her.  There was a life or death urgency in the way I spoke.

 

Paul speaks like that.  He said

 

“Always remember that this is

the hour of crisis; … it is high time for

you to wake out of sleep …”

 

Get dressed.  Get a knowledge of God!  Bring your horses down to the house. Bring them close.  Why?  Because...

 

“...deliverance is near!”
Romans 13:11&12

 

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