The Passion for Christ

UV 3630/10000. The Passion for Christ Put me like a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm; For love is as strong as death, jealousy is as severe and cruel as Sheol ( the place of the dead) it flashes are flashes of fire, ( a most vehement flame, the very flame of the Lord)! Song of Solomon 8 v 6 Jesus as King of Kings and Lord of Lords has signed and sealed us who believe in Him. We are His signet rings, the ring of authority used by rulers of old to stamp a decision or decree. Once it is sealed or signed, it is irrevocable, unbreakable. God’s agape love has caused this to happen. The power of His love is released in us and through us to break the power of death. His love is jealous, implying that when we spend hours with others and on other matters of our work or private lives but rush through mere minutes with Him, we are offending Him, hurting Him. On the contrary, we please Him when we spend hours in prayer, fellowship, worship, meditation. He will adorn us on His fingers as a signet ring. Our hearts desires or wishes, our prayers will be like His command. God is compassionate in His love but He is also a consuming fire. He requires of us what is rightly and justly His- our hearts. He needs our wholehearted allegiance as a King, commitment as His lover, not our treasures, not our possessions, not our abilities. When we withhold these from Him, we provoke Him to passion, to “jealousy”. It will burn like a fire, an inexhaustible flame till His will is done for He is sovereign. He has written our names on His nail-pierced palms, our image or selfies are on His heart. Do we offend His sensibilities and sensitivities with just a backward glance or ignore Him when we should be focusing on His eternal beauty, His enduring goodness, His multidimensional incomprehensible infinite love. We need to inscribe our vision of Jesus on our hearts. Our hearts once sealed cannot be wooed and won by the deceiver, the enemy. He uses not melted wax but His shed blood to seal us and all who are ours, all that is ours. The Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit is a witness within whether we just go through the motions of outward religion, light joss sticks to His picture or whether we treasure the living Saviour in our hearts, whether we value His blessings over the One who has so blessed us. When we are so blessed by Him, it will provoke the jealousy or envy of even our brothers as did Joseph's anointing from childhood provoked his eleven brothers to shoot arrows at him. But the Lord who loves us with more power than inexorable death, more passion than consuming fire, will shield us from every flaming arrow of the enemy. Even as He distinguishes us in His love, He extinguishes the scorching flame of evil triggered by jealousy.