Pure Love

All of creation groans for His returning. If this is true for the things of nature you can think of how much more awesome this truth is for His most valuable creations, mankind. He has placed in every one of us the ability for our hearts to yearn and to desire. We were created to have feelings and emotions, because if we weren’t than we would be mere robots.

Some affects of our hearts’ propensity to yearn, greatly desire, are the feelings of pain and anguish. It can feel like we are dying on the inside which is extremely uncomfortable. These heart feelings can be triggered by numerous stimuli and they tend to keep our minds wrapped up in the circumstances of life. One of the things that the Father is teaching me is to remember to take these feelings when they come and to direct them towards Him.

I believe that He is bringing mankind into an intense longing for His ways, where our hearts are irrevocably gripped with the deepest yearning and love for Him that we are able to withstand as humans, and even greater yet. Where our every thought screams to possess and feel His heart. I think that in the years to come that we will begin to dive into these deeper levels of healthy pain, where we love Him to the extent that it hurts, because He is preparing His bride for His return!

What does it mean to be refined by His holy fire? I think it means that He takes us through a process that molds us into beings that contain His pure love. He is transforming His bride into a body that is changed, and that changes the world with Him, pure love. A love that is void of ‘self’, one that is truly motivated by ‘others’, where the ‘hidden’ reasons we do what we do is to lift up Christ and broader mankind. When we think, speak, and act we do so with a holy purity that comes from Christ’s love alone.

He is searching for these righteous individuals, people that will allow Him to refine their hearts into a holiness that will draw His return! He isn’t just coming back for the sake of it; He is coming back for His pure and spotless bride. He is coming back for a people who have rallied together in the bond of pure love.