From Child to Bride

I heard with my heart as the father explained to the little girl named Rebecca (the name of the bride of Messiah) why there must be the martyr for Christ. Like Messiah, and in Messiah, there is the cost of the death to self, which frees the soul and the world, from the desperate, crushing separation from the life of God. The glory of God is what is sought, and is the only just compensation of those who give their all to Him! The same love, which is in Messiah, is also in those who chose HIM over their own lives. It is the mechanism by which His life and authority are spread, and of which the suicide bomber of the adversary is only a hollow and ultimately fatal mimicry.

The glory of God, which conquers by surrender to Him, is released, through the imitation and reflection of His all giving nature. There can be no fear when there is only Him there, for He is enough! He is far more than enough, for He is an infinity of tender regard and consuming beauty of passion, a passion FOR beauty, His own kind of incandescence, and the loveliness of His own!

These are the words of persuasion by which He calls you into the wilderness. The transforming power of His love insists that you follow the path He has blazed into the dry desert, where He will meet with you as you have so desired.

Hosea 2:13-15

13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals
when she burned incense to them,
put on her rings and jewelry,
and went after her lovers,
but forgot Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Israel’s Adultery Forgiven

14 Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.[a]
15 There I will give her vineyards back to her
and make the Valley of Achor[b]
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.

 Isaiah 43:19

Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 51:3

For the Lord will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places, and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.