by Cathy Vinson

The late Rich Mullins sang "...I've heard the soldier's songs...love within them leads them on...ever widening their mercies in the fury of His love...the wreckless, raging fury that they call the love of God."

Are we going to know it, the love of God as the wonderful, raging fury it is? Do we feel the incredibleness of His love pressing upon a simple life such as our own? How might its leak break through to begin its trickle upon and through us?

Jeremiah 33:3 says "Call unto Me, and I will answer you and show you great and unsearchable things that you do not know." There is a worldful of "the things we do not know," things such as praise from the lips of a troubled teen, resurrection of a wrecked marriage, an overall raising of a whole community, things we never dreamed of.

In our hearts, we do want to glorify Jesus, and He teaches us a profound principle in what glorifies Him. In John 16:15-16 He says "He [the Holy Spirit] will bring glory to Me by TAKING WHAT IS MINE AND MAKING IT KNOWN TO YOU. All that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is Mine and make it known to you." It brings glory to Jesus to be taken from, to be revealed, oh may He ever be revealed and revealed...

Might this be a beautifully settled truth within us. God has a Kingdom, one so wonderful with eternal pleasures at His right hand (Ps 16:11). It beckons to taken from, and can be by calling to Him. It is to great glory that He reveals to us in this our lifetime, this our generation. Will we call to Him, will we engage Him so as to take?

This is the day for calling, calling so He can reveal, revealing as to our great awe and wonder at "what is His," and wonder that will bring glory unto our most priced Savior.

(John 16:16)