Rain Down

What would it be like if Gods glory fell on us like a storm: raining down and flooding the dry dust of our hearts with holy fire? What would that look like?
I think it would look like romantic Love.
Lately, Gods been guiding me through lessons in Love.
What is Love?
Love is God.
God is Love.
He's helping me get to know Him more and more.
One thing He's been showing me is that Love is commitment, not emotion.
Emotion comes from it, but it is not the definition of Love. Emotion is temporary, Love is eternal. That is not to say that emotion is bad; of course it is not. Often times, our relationships with God have been started out of a very emotion state; He stoops down from heaven and woos us up to Himself. He wins our hearts with romance.
But, eventually, like most successful relationships, the Love grows: matures. Love doesn't become "how can You make me happy"; Love becomes "how can I make you happy". Love doesn't become "I'll stay committed to You when You make me feel the same way I felt when I met You"; Love becomes "I'll stay with You even when I don't feel like it, because I'm committed".
John 15:13 says that "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends".
God stayed committed to His people, whom He loved. Not to the point of laying down His own life. No. That would be too easy. He stayed committed to us to the point of laying down the life of His only son, Jesus Christ. Christs blood rained down to the ground, full of life and redemption. His blood pours over our bodies, fills our veins, and covers us; it makes us acceptable in Gods eyes. He sees Christs blood in us and takes us in as sons. Adopted. We are His children, and He is our Father.
We were Isaak, about to be sacrificed, and Jesus was our perfect lamb, slain in our place, who's blood is the payment for our ransom of sin. God provided the perfect lamb.
That is Love.
Love is when the person we care about becomes more important than ourselves.
That is Love.
Love is when we can look a person in the eyes, and they can stare back into ours, and see the reflection of God in our eyes. Then, with every thing we have say, I, Christ in me, Love you, and would gladly lay down my life for you. They wouldn't just see that a person, a mortal human would lay down their life. They would see God saying that too them. Not only that, but they would see Jesus saying that.
Hell.
Jesus already did that.
I hear people say "I love you", now, and I don't think they realize what they're saying. We do this so often. We really might as well say "I emotion you", or "I care about you as long as you make me feel this way".
What if God had done that.
God would have ditched us in the deserts of the Middle East.
God would have left us after His son was crucified.
No, God didn't just emotion us, God Loved us. God committed Himself to us.
It says so many numerous times that we will be His, and He will be ours.
It does not say "I will Love you, my people, if you worship me".
No.
It is a promise.
It is absolute.
God deals with the eternal, and temporary things flow from it.
For all good and perfect things come from Him.
Including Love; after all, He is Love. Love is eternal.
I'll end with the last thing I heard from God before He continued to test me.
He said "just because you don't feel Me, does not mean that I am not there. Just because you don't feel My Love, doesn't nullify my Love. Feelings don't affect my Love and commitment, just like your sin doesn't affect My goodness. I Love you, Joshua".
I hope this encourages you to ask God to rain down His glory, to flood the dust of our lives with Holy fire so that we can Love as God Loved us. To be perfect as He, our Father, is perfect.

I Love you,
-Josh