"And it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly."oliver wendell holmes
This brings to mind
many scriptures,
but one in particular
has begun a glorious
revolution in my mind.
A Kingdom That Cannon Be Shaken
"For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. For they could not endure the order that was given, 'If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.' Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, 'I tremble with fear.' But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jeruslem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first born who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speakes a better word than the blood of Abel.
"See that you do not refuse Him Who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused Him Who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns from heaven. At that time his voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, 'Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.' This phrase, 'Yet once more,' indicates the removal of things that are shaken--that is, things that have been made--in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:18-29
I currently live
in a kingdom
that is not darkness
and tempests
and terror.
I presently live
among the festal-gathered angels,
with the God Who consumes.
And I think that now is
the appropriate time
to revise my Credo.