The believer and his passion for the things of God.

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We live a Christian life that in some cases we are not sufficiently satisfied with our relationship with God, do we need our situation to be revived?

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, 2 To Timothy, my beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a clear conscience, that without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day; 4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; 5 calling to mind the unfeigned faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in you also. 6 For this reason I remind you to stir up the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but participate in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, 9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 10 but which has now been made manifest through the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who abandoned death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 of which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles.

2 Timothy 1:1-11

Here we can appreciate the words of the apostle Paul directed towards the young Timothy, if a fire is not fed correctly it loses its strength until it goes out. In the same way, the passion and fervor of the child of God is; if it is not fed and revived, it will diminish until it is completely extinguished.

As children of God, we have experienced a type of spiritual cooling on occasion. We can compare it to the lack of that revived fire that the apostle Paul speaks of. This cooling can happen for many reasons. For example, when we are hit by a great tragedy, we can think and feel that our cry, our request and prayer to God has not been heard or that God simply does not care about our situation. There are also those circumstances in which there are other priorities that obscure the gaze towards God and divert us from the path.

In this case, the young Timothy lived an experience of his fire diminishing, his passion for the things of God was affected, his enthusiasm was diminished due to the impact of the false teachings of the moment, leading him to cowardice. .

Any of these situations that imply a spiritual cooling in us lead us to a distancing from the things of God, especially from his word, which is the essential nourishment for our spiritual life. This can be something subtle and silent, even very difficult to detect. To do this, we can ask ourselves the following questions that can help us open our eyes and not stray from the path, much less allow a spiritual cooling in our lives.

Do we read the word of God a little each day? Do we pray to God knowing that whatever the situation, he listens attentively to my prayer? Do I meet with brothers of the faith to study the word of God and praise God? Do I remain faithful and firm in my spiritual convictions?

These are just some questions that can help us open our eyes and discover if our spiritual fire is diminishing. We can go much deeper, much more personal. We must simply present ourselves before God recognizing and asking God to revive the fire of the gift of God that is in us, we have enough firewood so that this fire never goes out, to exponentially increase our lives, the word of God is that highly flammable fuel that allows this fire not to go out, let us not stop reading and studying the word of God daily, this keeps our spiritual life on fire, burning with passion at the limit all the time.