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) How does a tree get its water? If you as a person want to get water, you take a drink. You pour it into your mouth. But how does a tree get water? You might think, “Well, water falls on it, and it soaks it up, like a sponge.” So if you take a bath, it’s a like taking a drink? No. People take in water through their mouth. And trees take in water through their roots. The life-giving water starts at the roots and it flows to the rest of the tree, one tiny little drop of life at a time. Jesus said, “I am the vine, you are the branches.” Life flows from the vine to the branch. So what does that look like in real time? How does that spiritual life, that living water, flow from Jesus to us? I think we’re usually looking for big things, the thunderstorm, the flood, the spiritual tsunami that sweeps us into God’s plan. But I think it’s more like how water flows from the vine to the branch: one tiny drop of life at a time. For example, here’s a