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As I was recently traveling through Virginia, I was reminded of an incident that I witnessed a few years ago.
Three years ago I was traveling to a conference in Central Virginia. As I was driving along Highway 522, I saw a house fire in the distance. The house, located along the highway, was completely engulfed in fire. Fire trucks were present in overwhelming numbers. As I drove by the fire, I was shocked by what I saw. On the front porch of this house were ten firefighters huddled together posing for a picture. Obviously the house was a controlled fire for the purpose of training firefighters. But the scene of firefighters posing for a picture with a house burning down around them was deeply disturbing.
As I remembered that incident, I could not help but think that we are like those firefighters. The house is burning down around us and we are too busy posing for a picture. The world is spiraling to eternity in Hell and we are posing for recognition, for glory, and for success in ministry.
At that moment on a highway, the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart and asked me, “George, when it comes to your life in this world, Are you too busy posing?”
