Light And Lightning

And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him.

And the spirit is one of light! All the doors and windows are open. His correspondences are perfect and unbroken. He is of “quick understanding,” keen-scented to discern the essences of things, alert to perceive the reality behind the semblance, to “see things as they are.” All the great primary senses are awake, and He has knowledge of every “secret place.”

He shall smite with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay. 

The spirit of light follows a crusade of holiness. The light becomes lightning! 

The “breathing,” which cools the fever-stricken, can also become a hot breath, which wastes and destroys every plant of evil desire. 

It is an awful thing, and yet a gracious thing, that “our God is a consuming fire.”

It was foretold of our Lord that He should baptize “with fire.”
And this crusade of holiness is in the ministry of peace. 

He will burn away all that defileth, in order that He may create a profound and permanent fellowship.  

When His work is done, there will be a mingling of apparent opposites, and antagonisms will melt into a gracious union. “The sucking child will play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.”

~John Henry Jowett~

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