God our Saviour

Fear not for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.
For I am the Lord, your God, your Saviour
(Isaiah 43:1,2) 

Wildfires have burned across our world during the summer. Some of these have been the worst on record. We have seen images of people running in terror from the advancing flames. Homes have been destroyed by ferocious flames and whole communities have been devasted and destroyed.
 
In the early days of my parents’ marriage, they lived in an upstairs flat in a house converted into flats. One day they both went out to work as usual, but when they came home in the evening, they were shocked to find the whole house had been gutted by a fire that started in the flat below theirs. They lost everything, all their clothes, furniture, possessions, including an expensive gold watch my mother had given to my father as a wedding gift. They only had the clothes they stood up in. They were devastated, traumatised.
 
Global warming and climate change are evidently evolving our world into a forest fire furnace. The CO₂ and other gases produced by our cars and technology are thought to be the cause of increasingly destructive atmospheric temperatures.
 
We must all pass through the fiery furnace of afflictions. Christians get burned like everybody else, and their homes are set ablaze, but God promises to be with us, to be our saviour. Nevertheless, I'm keen to discover more of the meaning of these prophetic promises of thousands of years ago in the context of our burning planet. I long to understand more about where faith in the God of Isaiah fits into our blazing world.