Archive for August, 2008

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Aug

the serious implications

Can you consider for a moment, yea for longer than a moment, the serious implications of the following statement –> God is love. God, whose omnipotence can not be measured, God, whose omniscience eternity can not contain. God, the one and only - Holy God, He is love.

Can you consider for a moment, yea for longer than a moment, the serious implications of the following statement –> His Name is Jealous. God, who is higher than the heavens, God, who cannot be escaped nor denied. God, the one who feels deeply and acts with radical passion, He is jealous.

Not mere devotional fodder, these realities have extremely radical implications for everyone living on the earth. Every eye shall behold Him, shall behold Love, shall behold Jealous.

Not mere theological currency, these realities bring entire ages of human history to bear and to close. No man, no angel, no created being can even begin to stop the ultimate, the transcendent One.

Jealous is His Name, an All-Consuming fire. All. Consuming. Fire.

Jealous is His Name, more fierce in passion that the grave. Fiercer. Than. Death.

He is after the hearts of men more than anyone has ever been after anything. Ever.

He is after the voluntary affection of that which is the inheritance of His beloved Son. Jesus.

Whole-hearted, hot pursuit by the God whose name is Jealous.

Whole-hearted, hot pursuit by the God who is a living flame of Love.

Woe to anything that hinders love.

Woe to the enemy of the King on His wedding Day.

(1 John 4:8, Exodus 34:14, Deuteronomy 4:24, 9:3, Hebrews 12:29, Songs 8:6-7, Revelation 19:7-9)