Kyknet Lent Guide 2022Sample

How can I ignite the fire inside of me?

Martin Luther King once said that your life’s mission (calling) needs to have length, depth and height. Length – something you can improve on across the span of your lifetime. Depth – something that touches the lives of others. Height – by satisfying your soul’s longing for a better world.

Still it happens that the fire in us, the passion, the awakening to our calling, fades and even dies. Peter encourages us to fasten it to ourselves (Peter 1). There are so many things that happen to us that could extinguish the fire within us. Success is one of these. A professor friend of mine received the honor of becoming the dean of a faculty. She turned it down because she felt that the immediate success and fame could take her away from that which was most important to her in her life, direct contact with, and accompaniment of students in their preparation for their own life’s mission. She would’ve had to manage and guide the lecturers.

To keep the fire burning for a lifetime, asks a form of saying no. You are invited to keep having discussions that fuel the fires of passion within you. To keep spending energy where it is most needed. To keep going to the places where you can endure the pain. To keep doing what you’re not afraid of, and to keep exposing yourself to the best examples of how it’s done in your field.

Reflection

You are invited to reflect upon the fire inside of you and to discuss it with Him. See if there is something you are invited to do. Something to add fuel to your fire.

Grace

Lord, I ask for the grace to awaken to my life-work.