“FIRE CAME DOWN!”

 2 Chronicles 6:41 - 2 Chronicles 7::3

    [41] “And now arise, O LORD GOD, and go to YOUR resting place,

        YOU and the ark of YOUR might.

    Let your priests, O LORD GOD, be clothed with salvation,

        and let YOUR saints rejoice in YOUR goodness. 

    [42] O LORD GOD, do not turn away the FACE of your anointed ONE!

        Remember YOUR steadfast love for David YOUR servant.”

FIRE from Heaven

[1] AS SOON AS SOLOMON FINISHED HIS PRAYER, “FIRE CAME DOWN” from HEAVEN and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and THE GLORY OF THE LORD filled the temple. [2] And THE PRIESTS COULD NOT ENTER THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD’s house. [3] When “ALL THE PEOPLE” of Israel saw the FIRE come down and the glory of the LORD on the temple, THEY BOWED DOWN WITH THEIR FACES TO THE GROUND on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, “For HE is good, for HIS steadfast LOVE endures forever.”

There are MANY SCRIPTURES that could be used by ALMIGHTY GOD this new morning to ENLIGHTEN my Brain Damaged mind, but the SPIRIT OF GOD is seemingly URGING me to LISTEN to everything HE is saying to me from the passages above.  

The TYPICAL “method of operation” for this humble servant is to “rapidly” move onto the next passage of Scripture and see if I can make sense of what is trying to be SAID to me.  But I am slowly but surely SEEING that GOD doesn’t have to WORK LIKE THAT!  HE OPERATES ON HIS OWN TIMELINE!!!

“AS SOON AS SOLOMON FINISHED HIS PRAYER, “FIRE CAME DOWN” from HEAVEN” is  the passage of Scripture that I am unable to get past this morning.  2 Chronicles 6:12-42 is an eloquent, detailed oration about how GOD was FAR TOO MAGNIFICENT for his mortal words to encapsulate description!  Yet after his attempt, “FIRE CAME DOWN” from HEAVEN!!!  

Now FIRE can be a destructive mechanism, one that leaves total destruction.  But it is ALSO a purification tool that brings about HIS LIFE after ALL interference is overcome???  Sometimes our “wildest imaginations” have to be DISMISSED when GOD IS DOING SOMETHING that words will NEVER be able to articulate!!!  

Solomon is the WISEST man, according to SCRIPTURE!  But his vocabulary was unable to articulate precisely what GOD had in store for the nation of Israel!  Whenever “FIRE CAME DOWN”, it didn’t necessarily mean that GOD was furious???  “FIRE CAME DOWN” may have been a sign that GOD was doing something of which that ONLY HE was WORTHY to be PRAISED???