Burning.

"There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight-- why the bush does not burn up." - Exodus 3: 2-3

When God sets something on fire, it does not burn up. When man, or anything natural, for that matter, sets something on fire, sooner or later, the fire is either put out, or the thing it is burning is reduced to ashes. God forbid we try to start a fire by natural ways; the work will either extinguish, and it will show for the fraud that it is, or worse still, the people we ignite will burn up, and lives that could have been used mightily by God are now, instead, embittered towards Him.

God, when we are faced with unsaved souls, or with friends in need of counsel, or with our own struggling and parched spiritual walks, may we not resort to the ways of man to ignite a fire for you. May we instead cry out to you with a faith that knows You are the only Answer; that You alone can set something on fire, and not have it burn out; that only the Holy Spirit can bring true salvation, true revival, true relationship.