The radical nature of Scripture-Our God is a consuming fire! « A Call To The Remnant

Scripture is completely radical. I really like studying it aloud (as my brothers and sisters know) The opposite day, I imagined a household gathered round a desk, lengthy earlier than telephones and computer systems existed. Of their palms is a letter from a beloved member of the family. One individual begins to learn, and the entire household leans in, hanging on each phrase. If the reader pauses, some keen soul bursts out, “What does he say subsequent?

I’ve by no means understood why some learn Scripture as if delivering a sorrowful obituary. There’s life within the Phrase! And there may be even larger life in studying it aloud. It strikes one thing within the Kingdom of God. It stirs the unseen realm, sending ripples of concentric circles by way of the world in methods we can not understand. It shakes, it attracts, it calls forth one thing of heaven’s ambiance into the right here and now.

The spirit inside us—as soon as useless however now raised to life by the ability of the Holy Spirit—begins to rise, like flames leaping up when the breath of life blows upon scorching coals. It ignites. It burns. It places hearth in our bones. Our God is a consuming hearth and His Phrase kindles the hearth that’s inside us.