“For thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord of hosts. (Haggai 2:6, 7 NKJV)
Jesus...Prophet, Priest and King and Desire of All Nations!
Often I have been ruled by the wants, passion and desire of my flesh. And I am still amazed that the God-man Jesus loves me and calls me unto Himself; loved, washed, forgiven.
He is shaking the ground of my heart, unto deeper levels. Breaking off the chains of despair, the agony of rejection, the suffering of self-inflicted sin and bringing me out of my loathsome isolation.
And I feel, being birthed in me....a love, a desire for this One. It is a result of the shaking in my life. And yep, I'm even coming to love the shaking.
John 17 so perfectly clarifies Haggai 2:6-7, as Jesus prays for us, interceding to the Father.
....His Glory shinning out in us bringing unity to the members, being made perfect, being LOVED as the Father has loved Jesus.
And right in the middle, Jesus says, "I Desire..." The Desire of All Nations, desires us! He desires us to behold His Glory! Wow!!! We the living temple of the Lord, beholding His glory. Being filled with desire for Him...greater than all that we hold dear.
The zeal of the Lord will do this.
Proverbs 8 takes all of this a bit deeper by showing the passion behind the desire; Jesus, as Wisdom, is seen as the delight of His Father's heart, rejoicing in the Father's creation and taking GREAT DELIGHT in us. AMAZING!!!
I am blown away and amazed! How Great is this abiding love...that we should be called and loved...
Father's love, Jesus Desire strip away all my selfishness, idolatry, shame. And all I have left is Him.
I AM HIS DESIRE!
“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” (John 17:20-26 NKJV)
"Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him, rejoicing in His inhabited world, and my delight was with the sons of man." (Proverbs 8: 30-31 NKJV)
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