GOD’S ROMANCE
And God said, Let us make man in Our
image, after our likeness:
so God created man in his own image, in
the image of God created
he him; male and female created he
them. Gen.1:26,27 KJV
At that day ye shall know that I am
in my Father, and ye in me,
and I in you. St.John 14:20 KJV
Did you hear that..?
The God of the universe desires us to be one with Him.
Can you comprehend how romantic our God is?
Have you come to realize about it?
Do
you see God the way He is?
we read from Eze.1-14
1The
word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man,
confront Jerusalem with her
detestable practices
3and say, ‘This is
what the Sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem:
Your ancestry and birth are in
the land of the Canaanites; your father was an
Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
My translation for verse 2&3 is – Spiritually we are not born of
God’s Spirit. We are polluted with the world.
We are of this world and contain all knowledge of men. We are doomed because
we are taught by the wisdom of this world and are staying alone without hope.
Verse 3 -In the OT time : the land of the Canaanites ,Amonites,
Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and jeebusites – all these refer to nowadays’ comfort
of this world:-
All the material things, including
human relationship, idolatries and adulteries of this world, and position,
earthly possession, idol worship, honor and praise from communities (reputation),
etc…anything that takes the place of the Living God within your heart.
When
we worship all these idols in our heart instead of looking up to our Creator, we
pollute our own soul and thus causes inward and outward sins (eg. envy,
factions, dissensions, selfish ambition, fits of rage, jealousy, discord,
hatred, witchcraft, debauchery, sexual immorality and impurity ) that definitely
will bring us into the judgment of God.
And if we are still not willing to accept the
discipline of the Almighty,
those sins will finally destroy us.
And men on
earth are getting more and more obvious in their wickedness than ever before. They are addicted to create all kinds of evil
strategies that they can ever think of to destroy one another in order to gain
position, and if possible, they desire to have the whole world. Undoubtedly
they had lost the senses of being a normal man. It all because of their desire
to become gods.. I think..!! Eccl.7:29 said:
This only have I found: God made
mankind upright,
but men have gone in search of
many schemes.
But the bible says:
4“Come out of her, my
people, so that you will not share in
her
sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
5for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remember
her crimes.
6Give back to her as
she has given; pay her back double for
what she
has done. Mix her a double portion from her
own cup.
7Give her as much
torture and grief as the glory and luxury she
gave herself.
In her heart she boasts, ‘I sit as queen; I am not
a widow, and
I will never mourn.’
8Therefore in one day
her plagues will overtake her; death,
mourning and
famine. She will be consumed by fire, for the
Amighty is
the LORD God who judges her. Rev.18:4-8
Do you want to choose to keep on holding an
invisible ‘bomb’ in your hand, intending to harm people or means to destroy
souls..? this would be found even within the church. Read Matt. 13:36-43
Do you prefer to choose to be a shinning light
for God to the world in this moment of time, or you want to choose to be a
killer and later be throw into hell by the Almighty God when He judge you? Have
you ever read Bible..what it said in Matt.10:28
?
Continued:
4On the day you were
born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with
water to make you clean,
nor were you rubbed
with salt or wrapped in cloths.
5No one looked on you
with pity or had compassion enough to do any of
these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into
the open field, for on
the day you were born you were despised.
When God see us in the mess we are in, He look
on compassion upon us while the world cares not and looks away from us. After
that He shapes and beautifies us and brings us into perfection.
Have you captured His romance!!??
Let’s continue,
6” ’Then I passed by
and saw you kicking about in your own blood, and as you
lay there in your
blood I said to you, “Live!” 7I made you grow like
a plant of the
field. You grew up and developed and became the
most beautiful of jewels. Your
breasts were
formed and your hair grew, you who were naked and bare.
In verse 6, have you come to comprehend how powerful it is, when a word is
decreed by God. What He decrees and it will be done, right? You know why?
Read John 1:1-18 –
Jesus Christ is the Living Word of God and the Light of life. When you
receive this Light, you would “Live”. read
Eze.37:4-10 and
Continuance,
8”
‘Later I passed by,
and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough
for love, I
spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness.
I gave you my
solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the
sovereign LORD,
and you became mine.
What
does it mean here ‘I spread the corner of my garment over your nakedness? What
do you think God clothes with? God clothes with Light.
Psalm 104:2-
He
wraps himself in light as with a garment;
I always think of a vision that God gave me.
In the vision there is a very big and long table and seated around the table were
all sorts of highly-educated and rich people. And I was standing in a distant
at one end of the table, looking pass through all the people sitting at the
table, I saw Jesus at the end of the other side, motioning for me to cross over
to his side. But as I want to, I realized that I was just wearing (disreputable) a little clothing only. Somehow
God knows my problem to refuse to walk over to him. He spoke right into my
heart from where He stood. He said, ‘ Trust me with your first step and I will
spread my light over you to cover you’. As I obeyed and trusted what He has
said, I scarcely passed through the crowd indistinguishable, without any harm
or getting charged. And later God communicated with me: “This is how you are going
to live: you walk in my light and under my cares.”
All He wants me to do in my life is to trust
Him completely concerning everything.
Till then, the Light is my focus in my life
and I search out everything concerning the Light.
Jesus Christ is wisdom and the power of
God. He is full of grace and truth. He came as a Light for the world. Read proverbs
from chapter 1 – 9 (Holy Bible)
Continuation,
9” ‘I bathed you with
water and washed the blood from you and put ointments
on you.
10I clothed you with
an embroidered dress and put leather sandars on
you. I dress and put leather sandals on you. I dressed you in fine
linen and
covered you with costly garments.
11I adorned you with
jewelry; I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around
your neck, 12and I put a ring on
your nose, earrings on your ears and a beautiful
crown on your head.
13So you were adorned
with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and
costly fabric and emboldened cloth,
your food was fine flour, honey and olive.
You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen.
14And your fame spread
among the nations on account of your beauty, because
the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the
Sovereign
LORD. Eze.16:1-14
From verse 9-14 - When God picks us, he blessed us in the
heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. And we received redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins. And he lavished on us all wisdom and understanding.
He sent His Spirit to give us new birth into His kingdom,
to transform us from glory to glory and from strength to strength till we are changed
into the image of Christ.
Only in walking with God closely and intimately, you would
fully understand about this.
Only through experience, you
would come to understand what this is all about.
Can you see….
God’s emotion..!!??
And behind his emotion, there is romance!!
If you read this bible passage verse by verse, you would
see God’s emotion.
You can grasp the other side of God’s anger when we choose
rebellion.
2”Rebuked your mother,
rebuked her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her
husband.
Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the
unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
3Otherwise I will stripe her naked and make her as bare as
on the day she was
born; I
will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her
with thirst.
4I will not show my
love to her children, because they are the
children of adultery.
5Their mother has been
unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace.
she said,’I will go after my lovers, who give
me my food and my water, my
wool
and my linen, my oil and my drink.’
6Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that
she cannot find her way.
7She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she
will look for them but
not find them. then she will say, ‘I will go back
to my husband as at first,
for then I was better off than now.’
8She has not
acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new
wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and
gold – which they used for
baal.
9”Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, and my
new wine
when it is
ready. I will take back my wool and my linen, intented to
cover
her nakedness.
10So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers;
no one
will take her out of my hands.
11I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her
new moons, her
Sabbath
days- all her appointed feasts.
12I will ruin her vines
and her fig tree, which she said were her pay from
her lovers;
I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.
13I will punish her for the days she burned incence to the baals;
she decked
herself
with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers,
but me she forgot, declares the LORD.
14“Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her
into the desert
and speak tenderly to her.
15There I will give her
back her vineyards, and will make the valley of
anchor a
door of hope. therefore she will sing as in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
16”In that day,”
declares the LORD, “you will call me ‘my husband’; you will
no longer call me ‘my master.’
17I will remove the
names of the baals from her lips; no longer will their
names be invoked.
18In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts
of the field
and the
birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground.
bow and sword and battle I will abolish from
the land, so that all may lie
down in safety.
19I will betroth you to
me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness
and justice, in love and compassion.
20I will betroth you in
faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD.
After we have been bought back from
lust of chasing after false comfort of this world, and if we go astray again, it
will be not of worth to do so. Sometimes it could cause us to pay a great prize
for our mistake. We might suffer great loss either in emotional pain or physical
pain.
This is God’s character: He will
never let any sins go unpunished, except
grace will be
given, for he is a just God.
Our God is a
jealous God who demands
absolutely no worship of other gods, but He
alone
we worship.
This is my story:
For 10 years I have been dwelling
among all kinds of Christian people
in and out of 4 churches. Growing
through persecution, accusation,
rejection etc.. And all this might
cause me to suffer pain and
loneliness.
Every time, when the heat of those
strike get hotter and beyond limit,
my heart would break. When it breaks,
my heart would grow very
cold.
And over and over this happened. But
every time when this happens,
God used to bring me back until I
finally learn to overcome by
focusing on the passion of the LORD.
These are those verses that God showed
me and gave me understanding
about His love and concern toward
us, so as to bring me back whenever
my heart grows cold. And through each
of my experiences, I see into God
deeper, until I sense His emotion.
Through those experiences, I felt that God is
continually loving
us passionately.
He has never desire to let us go nor is He
willing to give
us up. I felt that God is absolutely worthy of our
love.
The 4th church now is my most favorite and I know
God love them too.
Do you want to love God, live for Him and
obey His speaking voice..?
So that we can be that bride- ‘the New
Jerusalem’ !!
All
love for the King of Glory !!
Ritapearl
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