For the Lord your God is a fire consuming – a passionate God (Deuteronomy 4.24)
‘Passionate’. A better word to use in translating the Hebrew than the more usual ‘jealous’, which has bad connotations in contemporary English usage. God has such intensity of feeling of purpose, with plans to prosper and mature those made in His image and likeness.
This is the God who grips us in Jesus. Who draws us into and through the Cross of Christ to be united with His Son, calling and commanding us to invest ourselves in all that Christ represents, brings to us and is concerned about.
This is what God defines as love. Crucifyingly intense.
