Malachi 3:2 ESV
But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.
1 Corinthians 3:13 ESV
Each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
Malachi 3:3 ESV
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.
A consistent theme (scriptures above) that we will realize as we continue to walk closely with the Lord is He will make our Hearts and Minds down to earth/authentic and teachable. This is the Lord's way of refining us so that the purity of His Love within us will only manifest in Him and through Him.
Before we accept the Lord Jesus as our one and only Savior, we are like "goats" (spiritually) stinky, stubborn, selfish, all about me and myself, know it all very worldly, etc. When our hearts and minds are slowly transformed by His Love, we become like sheep - obedient to Him and His commandments, teachable, fully dependent to Him for His will and plan for our life - to our best interest. We did not create ourselves and our world but the Lord and following Him through His most precious Son Jesus is always a win-win life for us.
Excellent examples in the New Testament are Apostle Peter and Paul. Once they were touched by the Love of God - both gave it all for the Lord's Kingdom to advance. They were best friends of Jesus who lived on fire of God's love constantly. The supernaturally empowered life of a Christian living at its highest Holy Spirit dimension has only been lived by Christian Leaders who took the challenge of serving the Lord by faith. If the Body of Christ can move in that direction, our civilization will be changed for what we truly were created for by the Godhead. Humanism created the civilization that we are now in - yet we have achieved a lot but are spiritually poor. Poverty in spirit creates homelessness, sickness, mental illness, emptiness in our hearts, etc. A Holy Spirit-driven society will be achievable in the future if we continue to faithfully steward this Jesus Revolution that we are in.
The Lord will use our weaknesses and strengths to bring glory to Himself in all that we do because it is the perfection and divinity of Jesus that will manifest in Him and through Him. The world will try to judge us because their spiritual man/woman is making them want what we have inside of us - God's love is perfected within us. The blessings and persecutions that we encounter in our lives are also the Lord's way of teaching us how to become like Him (our lives) because it will constantly reset our hearts and minds unto Himself.
On this Holy Week 2023, our God the Father Almighty has blessed the USA and the world - with heavens blessings that have never been experienced by our civilization - through His most precious Son Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit. God's unfailing love for us (mankind) that is being celebrated this whole week in the Bride of Christ is a reflection of how great, how high, how wide is His Love for us - the eternal beauty of Him as our creator. Starting on Palm Sunday (Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem riding on a donkey?), the King and God of our universe riding on a donkey, faithfully obeyed what His Dad sent Him to do for us. That is in spite of Jesus knowing how painful that one-week journey was ahead of Him. The whole week was about Father God's redemptive Love for mankind. Jesus' suffering and death for our Salvation and Redemption at the Cross on Resurrection Sunday. Jesus was joyfully greeted with Palm branches only for Him to suffer the worst suffering of a man- recorded in the history of our civilization. God the Father sent Jesus to save us from our (sins) wickedness and brokenness. He made us whole at the Cross and restored all those who believe and follow Him- as royal sons and daughters of our Almighty Father. We are now seated with Jesus at the right-hand side of Father God- in the third heaven. His rising to Life on Easter Sunday sealed the whole life ministry of our Lord because He conquered death and is now alive seated at the right-hand side of His Dad in the third heaven - which sets Christianity apart from world religions.
It will be exciting to look forward to what the Godhead will continue to do in this Jesus Movement Era that we are now in.
All of these I/we believe and receive in your most holy name Jesus! Amen!
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