For our God is a consuming fire. — Hebrews 12:29
We should worship God with reverence because he is a consuming fire! What does that mean? Is the focus on his holiness? Does this warn of judgment? Is this an expression of his purity? Yes, YES, YES! You see, God is holy and pure and righteous. Our imperfections, flaws, failures, and sins stand out glaringly in comparison to his perfection. Yet rather than destroying us with his holy fire.
He can make us new and clean and more than what we once were. So not only can we draw near to him because of Jesus, we can stay near him as we live Jesus' life in our world (see Hebrews 13). That, dear friend, is reverential worship at its finest!
Thoughts
. Jesus Christ didn’t come into my heart to sit down; he started moving around.
- Andy Hamilton
. To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. - Janet T. Coleman
Finding Life
John 14:19
Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
O Lord, who is like You?
Who among the gods is like you, O LORD? Who is like you — majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders? — Exodus 15:11
With whom do you compare the incomparable? How do you grasp the infinite with a finite mind? When the quintessence of majesty is the God you contemplate, how can you ever speak of majesty about anything else? God exhausts our superlatives. God's glory bewilders our imaginations. God's greatness exceeds our wildest dreams.
He is beyond what we can know or believe. Yet the Wonder of all his wonders is simply this: he limited himself to a baby, swaddled by loving parents in strips of cloth, and placed in a feed trough because there was no room for them in the inn. Sometimes the greatest of all wonders are not the ones that require our biggest and best words. Sometimes the greatest of all wonders wrap their tiny fingers around our own and capture our hearts.
[Message No: 7702]
We should worship God with reverence because he is a consuming fire! What does that mean? Is the focus on his holiness? Does this warn of judgment? Is this an expression of his purity? Yes, YES, YES! You see, God is holy and pure and righteous. Our imperfections, flaws, failures, and sins stand out glaringly in comparison to his perfection. Yet rather than destroying us with his holy fire.
He can make us new and clean and more than what we once were. So not only can we draw near to him because of Jesus, we can stay near him as we live Jesus' life in our world (see Hebrews 13). That, dear friend, is reverential worship at its finest!
Thoughts
. Jesus Christ didn’t come into my heart to sit down; he started moving around.
- Andy Hamilton
. To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. - Janet T. Coleman
Finding Life
John 14:19
Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
O Lord, who is like You?
Who among the gods is like you, O LORD? Who is like you — majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders? — Exodus 15:11
With whom do you compare the incomparable? How do you grasp the infinite with a finite mind? When the quintessence of majesty is the God you contemplate, how can you ever speak of majesty about anything else? God exhausts our superlatives. God's glory bewilders our imaginations. God's greatness exceeds our wildest dreams.
He is beyond what we can know or believe. Yet the Wonder of all his wonders is simply this: he limited himself to a baby, swaddled by loving parents in strips of cloth, and placed in a feed trough because there was no room for them in the inn. Sometimes the greatest of all wonders are not the ones that require our biggest and best words. Sometimes the greatest of all wonders wrap their tiny fingers around our own and capture our hearts.
[Message No: 7702]
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