His unconditional love is unfailing; his jealousy remains a consuming fire. His love is Holy (Agape); it is a consuming fire. It is fearful to be in the hands of the unfailing love of the Divine Spirit: the awe reverence of fear due to His consuming fire. We are acquainted with His consuming fire in His Presence. Thus, those who call upon His "name" shall be saved. His unfailing love is totally different from what we, humans, normally experience the subjective love such as patriotism, philiac love and erotic love. His love is Most Holy. Our spirits sense it and experience it... "in His Presence--by the emmanuel Holy Spirit."
Believers experience it, and they even receive His "words." Non-believers are still receiving His emanated boundless unfailing love, the Source of life, and yet they are not granted the entrance into the Presence of the Holy Spirit except the Spirit with mercy purposely allows them to see His presence. We may reason out that we see His unfailing love through faith. Yes, Amen. But his strength, peace, joy and love are manifested and experienced in His Presence: the shadow of His wings.
We could choose either to think about the heat and the light of the sun rays or to experience the shining light of the sun. When we think about it, we call it meditation. When we are exactly under the Rays, it is likened as if we are entering His Presence. The ancient Israelites were directly dealt by YHVH's fire along the routes of their wilderness in the Exodus, and their times in the Holy Land (... in His Presence or in the presence of His angels). Later, they were somehow indirectly experiencing His consuming fire in the Diaspora. Thus, this explained their perplexities in the foreign lands. Unless the Spirit authors our faith, then our perplexities would continue hovering over us.
May his inexhaustible divine mercy, and his compassionate Sacred Cross, and the 'richness' of His death endow me deeper "ginosko" concerning the Way, the Door, and the Key in entering the 'ark' of reconciliation, so that I may able to stand on the holy ground of His "Face." Or else, I shall be reduced to my five senses and intellect, alone without the presence of the great Counselor, in comprehending His love--His fire. Eventually, in agony, my flesh shall be consumed, returning to the dust. And my true essence, the spirit, would face the Judgment Seat of Christ. If the flesh is possible to be holy, then there would have no death for the flesh! Henoch, Elijah and St. Mary had experienced no death of the flesh, and this manifested the transcending ability of God. Alas! It is not His priority. Not only, It would have been against His perfection, but also against His missions, if he would have granted immortality of the flesh for all believers.
The Way grants us the purification for the "spirits" ("hearts of the spirits" or "wicks of the lamps"...see Matt. 5: 8 and Proverbs 20: 27). We are the descendants of the 'wounded man.' God's priority in Christ's redemption for mankind is the sanctification/purification of the redeemed spirits of the 'wounded' men. When we fail to acknowledge and to receive his holy unfailing love, then we may eventually be separated from the fullness of life; the extremity of the opposite of the fullness of life is what we call "hell." So, Christ came to grant us the Way in receiving Divine unfailing most holy love, so that we may learn to love the Creator. Thus, heaven is the place of the fullness of divine Holy love. All of us, either believers or non-believers, are sustained by this holy love. Failure in glorifying, receiving, and loving Him back means separation of His realities; and yet our success is the gift of the Spirit. Hell is the "least-lowest-place" in the universe concerning the realities of Divine Love.
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