B.B.T.

A train barreling forward with great speed, beware the logs thrown into the fire, pay heed.

Fire is all consuming, shadows seem to be looming.

Picture a Western movie. Now picture said movie without a steam engine. Doesn't happen. There will always be a scene with a Big Black Train.

I know I can see it. Time and again. I can hear the whistle blowing and the man shouting "ALL ABOARD".

Climb on up into the traveling cars and get ready for the ride of your life.

Now, I'm not an engineer. I don't even claim to understand basic science concepts, but steam engines seem to be 'fairly' sensical. 

You've got a car right behind the engine filled with logs. These logs are fed into a fire within the engine that somehow produces movement. This is produced by water and steam and fire, but again, science and I, not friends-but the fact remains that the fire moves and powers an entire train. It moves thousands of pounds of metal(numbers and math-abstract and unattainable so that might be unrealistic), but the truth remains that a small fire produces GREAT MOVEMENT. A small fire within the heart of the engine does work. In biblical terms, the rudder directs a ship, a bit controls a horse. Our soul seems to be a steam engine powered by a fire that we feed.

Great news about a train-that movement is kept on track by a set of rails. It cannot diverge.

Now-think about the human life. We feed a fire within our soul, and we don't have tracks. 

I picture a group of 12 year old boys and some how they got their hands on a pile of fire crackers. They attach them to a stick and plant it into the ground, light the wick and step back. Well, these fire crackers tip and point in every direction but up. The spark hits the chamber and off they go in every which direction. Mass chaos before your eyes.  

So when we light our fire of a soul, it's more like lighting a fire cracker on a stick-letting go-and praying it stays upright. Accompany that with the train idea and we have quite the possibility for movement. A train-like fire cracker movement. 

Feed your fire with gasoline-the carnage and damage is astounding.

Feed your fire with logs-we still seem to manage large amounts of damage.

Douse the fire-life isn't worth living.

The conundrum-life. I like the word conundrum, but hadn't known the definition till I looked it up: "a confusing and difficult problem or question."So again, I say the conundrum-LIFE.

+Romans 7.7-25