By the Fire of His Love.

A few weeks back, on one of these rather cool wintry nights, I was sitting on my back porch, looking out at the night sky and thinking about what craziness, what chaos, what madness had engulfed so many lives in the past year— from Ukraine to Iraq, Kurdistan to Kansas, and Nigeria to NYC, in churches, countries, communities, in families, marriages, right down to the core of our most selfish selves.  Without a conscious decision to move in this direction, I simply lifted my hands to the stars and from my lips came these words, “Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.  Come with vengeance, come with fire, bring Your Kingdom down upon the nations of this Earth, upon the wickedness of evil men infected with greed and the lust for more.  Come, purify us by the fire of Your love!”  And this was the phrase which rang out like a shot in the night.  By the fire of Your Love.

Much will be destroyed in this holy fire; and much will be cleansed, for how could it not?  But those who belong to His Kingdom, a “Kingdom which cannot be shaken” {Heb. 12:28a}, will be purified... by the fire of His love.  I say this, not with the least amount of arrogance {‘Us vs. Them’}, but in the most earnest zeal and deepest desperation my heart can muster.

For I see, apart from the Return of the King to claim us as His Own, to strike down the nations with a rod of iron {including Israel}, to tread the winepress of Abba’s wrath and set right all the enemy has set wrong, no Hope on the horizon.  Things may improve in fits and starts, here and there, but there will be no peace for the souls of men, no Triumphant March toward human progress, no joy which cannot be shaken nor Life which cannot be taken, until Jesus takes up rulership of this Earth as King of all Kings and Lord of all Lords!  Then and only then will His-Story reach its climax; then and only then will we become what we were destined to be from the Beginning— true Sons and Daughters of the Living God.

HJC	Ric Webb  |  Shepherd Heart’s Journey Community 9621 Tall Timber Blvd. |  Little Rock, AR 72204 t +1.501.455.0296 | hjcommunity.org
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