Light their candle at its flame: flame upon flame; God adding the quickening to our flame that we shine brighter and burn hotter. The flesh profits nothing and a devotion of daily bible intake coupled with the practice of spiritual disciplines cause us to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God which works in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Then the brightness of the flame is in our purview, our responsibility and God adds to the fire. What if His addition is but incense but the resultant flame representative of our labor? Then strange fire is our fault and if it be already extinguished, we’d better get to work.