The Pressure That Destroys

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.  Ephesians 3:20-21 NASB

We have entered a season of salvation history in which there can be no more hidden iniquity. Glory is coming, but the glory sent to bless becomes the pressure that destroys when it rests upon a faulty or cracked foundation. The warning has been issued and we see it in multiple exposures of sin in leadership all over the world. Things man once got away with in the outer court will get us crushed and destroyed in the inner court into which Holy Spirit now calls His family. 

2 Chronicles 7:13-14 NASB If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Holiness and the heart of God require cleansing, which requires repentance. In the original languages of the Bible, holiness means that we have been set apart for God’s purposes. Obviously, this doesn’t mean we must all become monks and nuns, but it does mean that every aspect of life becomes caught up in His presence and surrenders to His kingship and will.

God has created all that was and all that will be, and is again about to do something stunning, are we, the body of Christ, ready? Or sound asleep, captivated and blinded by a culture of self that ultimately fails to serve the purposes of the kingdom of God. 

Jesus forgive-me! Forgive us Lord! Too often and too much, we seek glory without a focus on the cross where we die to self with You Jesus, Saviour, who gave the blood that cleanses, and the resurrection that releases life. 

God Jesus Christ Holy Spirit asks us, created in His image, to choose fellowship and intimacy with Him; or remain eternally cut off from Him by sin, brokenness, and defilement. The distance exists, not because God can’t tolerate the unholy. The truth is that in our unprotected, broken, and sinful state, if we were exposed to the raw, unfiltered glory and might of God, it would destroy us—and that would be neither God’s fault nor His will. His radiant holiness, compassion, tenderness, love, and power are so pure that we could never survive His presence. 

Longing for reconciliation with His children, His people, Jesus died as the sacrifice for our sin, to cleanse us and enable us to draw near to the holy holy holy, magnificence of God the Father, wearing the righteousness of Jesus Christ.