The Fiercest Love and Biggest God
I don't know when I realized this, but somewhere along the way recently I realized that not only am I God's daughter... I am Yahweh's daughter. What's the difference? Well, just my own experience of what that means, and the difference has been huge. I've been reading through Kings and Chronicles, and God is pretty fierce in those books. He is fiercely loyal to his people and fiercely protective against anything that would harm them, including their own sin. He is a jealous God, who fights for his people when they abandon him, no matter what that means. Honestly, sometimes it makes my stomach turn, and I don't really have good answers as to why he did some of the things he did. They seem a bit harsh at times... But one thing is undeniable: He is strong, fierce, protective, loyal. It's a side of God I don't always think about, and if I do ponder that side I tend to think of it as the God way back in the Old Testament, Yahweh. Those charact...