Thoughts for another day

Feb. 18, 2013.

Today's verse: Heb. 12:28, 29. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.  (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

Ever wonder what a consuming fire is?  It’s one which has the ability to, in the blink of an eye, turn something into ash, completely destroying and leaving no signs of what was.  Our God we know is a Consuming Fire and our God destroys.  He is able to destroy everything that comes against His plan and against His people.  Moses saw God as a Consuming Fire, brilliant and glorious yet, God proved that He has the Power to either consume or save.  That’s why, though the burning bush burnt, it was not destroyed for God had His Sovereign Authority over it and it made Moses wonder and move closer to have a look.

That God is a Consuming Fire, is known to us and this nature of God is because He is Holy.  His holiness gives rise to His magnificent, awesome and glorious power of being able to Consume.  His glorious cloak consumes and destroys those who are anti-Him and rebel against Him.   This should inspire awe in us for, in the Word of God we also see how Uzzah was consumed in a flash when he attempted to steady the Ark of God, 2 Sam. 6:7.  While we may say that Uzzah only did that which He thought to be right else, maybe the Ark would have fallen, yet in God’s sight, it was a sign of disobedience as only the Levites could touch or carry it but no one else  could even look into it as discovered the men of Beth-shemesh to their deaths as in 1 Sam. 6:19.

For us, this knowledge should suffice to know that when God is for us, who can be against us and when we are in the right with Him, no power on earth can do anything to us which is not allowed by Him.  He not only saves us but He keeps us too.  Besides, when we see God as a Consuming Fire, we must also understand that He can consume and destroy all our weaknesses by which we sin and help us to live lives pleasing to Him.  Isn’t our God, good, they He be a Consuming Fire?