"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame."
In this passage the love of God is revealed as a blazing fire. In Hebrews it says that our God is an all consuming fire. Not just LIKE fire, but that God IS all consuming fire.
What does fire do? It burns up everything that can be burned. What is not burned in fire is only refined. Gold and silver do not burn up in fire, they become purified as the dross in them comes to the surface and is burned away.
Through the cross of Jesus, everyone who goes on believing in Him is covered in the Holy and Perfect blood of Jesus. The sacrifice of Jesus does not remove us from the fire of God. (How could it if God is an all-consuming fire? Jesus did not come to remove us from God.) The sacrifice of Jesus enables us to stand in the fire of God.
God is an all consuming fire and one day each of us will stand before God and give an account of our life. No one will escape being in the fire of God. The fire of God is unquenchable- it has eternal energy. The fire of God contains both the wrath of God and the love of God.
Through the sacrifice of Jesus, the wrath of God has been satisfied! What a glorious mystery, that the unquenchable wrath of God could be satisfied! That while we were enemies of God in our minds, He demonstrated agape love through offering his perfect Son as a sacrifice.
Now for those who believe and go on believing in Jesus, the love poured out at the cross covers and enables us to stand in the all consuming fire of God, being refined into perfect unity with our heavenly Father.
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