Is your spiritual life segregated?

Last night I had the oppertunity to hear a minister friend, Joel Triska, speak on "Pyro Spirituality." Basically the premise is that we segregate our lives into fragmented pieces similar to the lunch trays we used in elementary school. We have our home life over here and our relationships over here and our church life over here. They are all nice and neat and in their own little space.

Yet, Scripture teaches just the opposite. Our lives are suppose to be integrated into a whole. Everything is spiritual. There is no difference between our home life, our school life, or our church lives. They should all be centered around one man--Jesus Christ.

Leviticus 6:8-16 explains that the priests were "keepers of the flame." You see God started this fire that was suppose to burn day and night. This fire consumed the offerings brought before God by the priest for the peoples sins. After the offerings were consumed by the fire, the priests would take all the ashes away. This was thier life. To find fire wood, keep the flame alive, and then remove all the ashes...day after day after day. Glamorous life, huh? But the idea is that they kept the fire of God alive and present in their lives.

So apply this to your life. Joel said that sometimes it is sheer will to keep the fire going. We have to focus and center our lives around keeping Jesus Christ central. We must allow the Holy Spirit to be a consuming flame that ignites us daily. God begins the work, God starts the fire, but He is asking us to keep it alive. To live for him every moment of everyday.

Seems radical but to the priest that was normal life. Think about it...