When we think of the saying that God is a consuming fire, what comes to mind? Is it a safe vision, one of comfort and peace? I used to think it was. Until the Spirit gave revelation.
“So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you. “For the Lord your God is a CONSUMING FIRE, a jealous God. Deut. 4:23-24
From the Lord of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a CONSUMING FIRE. Isaiah 29:6
And the Lord will cause His voice of authority to be heard, And the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger, and in the flame of a CONSUMING FIRE; Isaiah 30:30
Sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling has seized the godless. “Who among us can live with the CONSUMING FIRE? Who among us can live with continual burning?” Isaiah 33:14
See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a CONSUMING FIRE. Hebrews 12:25-29
“My Lord, help us to see Your true identity, Your whole personality. Let me and my brethren not fall into the modern trap of having a spiritual identity crisis and making a God in our own image.”
Your friend and brother in fighting the good fight,
Marc
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FRIDAY FIRE: A few minutes to help kindle the SPIRITUAL FIRE in us all; by Marc White, Director, Walk Worthy, Central Florida, USA
Jesus said, “I have come to cast FIRE upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled! Luke 12:49
“…walk in a manner worthy of the Lord,” Eph. 4.1, Col. 1.10, 1 Thes. 2.12
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