Leviticus 9:22-24 “22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings. 23 Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people. 24 Then fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.”

I will never forget when I was around 10 or 11 years old the Floyd Hotel in my hometown of Pelham, GA burned to the ground. It was a wooden structure, which had been built many years earlier. The wood was pine so the fire was very hot. It was so hot that the fire department had to keep neighboring buildings wet to keep them from bursting into flames, not from embers but from the intense heat that was put off by the fire. I watched from a distance, but still when I got home, my face was red. Hot fire!!!!

What if you and your children were there at the time when Moses and Aaron came out of the Tent of Meeting and God’s fire fell? It was no wonder that the people “shouted and fell on their faces.” Seeing that fire scared them. They had not been that close to the fire of God. They weren’t sure where that fire might leap. I can imagine that moms and dads grabbed their children to comfort them and try to shelter them.

But you know what? Today, as believers, we have no need to fear God’s fire. In fact, we should welcome the burning embers into our life. Teach your children that the presence of God, which was in the fire the people saw back then, can indwell them through the Holy Spirit. His fire should not scare us. His “Holy Glow” should instead draw us to Him. Are you cold? Come closer to the fire!