BURNING HEART

"And they said one to another, did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?" Luke 24:32

Jesus had risen from the dead, was alive and was seen among the living. He is alive TODAY. His blood shed for all. The word of His testimony on the road made these two hearts to burn within them. The truth was penetrating deep within them, piercing their hearts like a double edged sword (Hebrews 4:12). This is how the Word of God, still today, moves in our being. As Jesus opens the scriptures to us, as we search the word daily (Acts 17:11), our hearts burn within us. God's vision becomes our vision, God's eternal view becomes our eternal view. The holy Word of God is more than words on a page, they are the living, life changing, life-breath of God. We begin to see as Jesus saw and do what Jesus did (Matthew 9:35-36), right here, right now. i know my heart burns within me as he opens the scripture to me, how about you?

The living Word of God allows us to see with spiritual eyes, past human frailty, our own and others, and see how Jesus sees each person (James 5:20; 1 Peter 4:8). It teaches us to love as Jesus loved (1 Corinthians 13) It is a glimpse of how God sees us and loves us, and his desire that none should perish (2 Peter 3:9). It transforms (Romans 12:2) us by the power of God into more than we can be on our own, holy, righteous, ever being perfected in His image. Transforming us to do more than we could on our own (Matthew 19:26; Philippians 4:13). The truth is, the greater reality is what Jesus said, not what we see in the natural (1 Corinthians 13:12). God's word allows us to rub some of the darkness from the glass of our life, and peek through into eternity. God's word is eternal life.

When we are out in the world, the name of Jesus is all we have to stand on. When we are alone in the quiet and privacy of our home, Jesus is all we have. And that is enough. Jesus lived and died for us. When he opens the scripture before me, my heart burns. Burns to be like him, to know him more, to be with him, to hear him clearly, to see as he sees, to do as he wills, my heart burns at his presence in me. My hearts burning desire is to serve him and spend eternity with him. To live and die for him. How about you?

"For the Lord our God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God." Deuteronomy 4:24