Consumed by Your Love.

You, Lord, are a consuming fire.

A fire of Love.

A holy fire of Love.

And You are Love.

And Your Love casts out all fear and darkness.

Consume us with Your perfect Love.

We will never be perfect but we are clothed in the Perfect One.

Therefore, in Christ, we are able to reflect Your perfect Love to the world.

And we are able to receive strength through Jesus to walk in holiness.

But we need Your holy fire, that is Your Love, to consume us

so that all we know and all we are is Your love.

You ask us to be holy because you are holy.

We cannot reach holiness and purity on our own and in our own strengths or actions.

(We could never pray, fast, or read enough to achieve it)

We need Christ to cleanse us with His blood.

We are made holy and pure when we come washed in the blood of Jesus.

We repent and You cover our sins in the blood and You see Jesus-the Holy One.

Jesus, the Perfect One.

We please You with our faith in Christ and in the cross, not with our works alone.

We need faith to empower us to do great works for Your Kingdom.

But we can do NOTHING if we have not LOVE.

Faith will pass away.

Hope will fade.

But Love will never fail.

Your Love Remains.

Consume us by Your unfailing Love.