My Heart Is On Fire By Doug Apple - A Short Christian Devotional To Open The Scriptures And Make Your Heart Burn Within You!

I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire! (Luke 24:32) “I wanted her to live her life.” “What?” “My mother. She had some bad things happen in her life.” “What did you want her to do?” “I wanted her to love it anyway.” That’s a quote from a movie that really stuck with me. Although his mother’s life was riddled with hard things, he wanted his mother to love her life anyway. Have you ever met someone who was just a downer? Either life had given them a beating, or else their life wasn’t so bad, they just thought it was; and they became a downer, a crabby little Eeyore singing woe is me and raining on everyone’s parade. Well, what can you do if life gives you a beating? Love it anyway. You can embrace it and run with it and milk it for all it’s worth. I think of Jesus’ parable of the talents. Some were given more than others, but all were expected to take the hand they were dealt and play it for good, for improvement, for growth and expansion and increase. Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I