Fiery Baptisms

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but the One who is coming after me is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to take off His sandals. He Himself will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.”
(Matthew 3:11-12 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)

Do not be distracted by the fact that Jesus uses fire both to purify His people and to destroy His enemies. Do not fear things that seem in your life to be designed specifically for your destruction. Trust Jesus to cause them to be worked together for your good, and your faith in that fire will help to produce the good.