Ask for the Fire

Love is an innate nature in us - the ability to love and receive love. That's how we are wired. Just as we grow up biologically from a babe to a teenager and then to a young adult and so on, how do we grow on the inside of us? The diet for the babe and adult is different. Stay with me on this... cos many of us, including myself, take for granted that things on the inside of us grow 'automatically'. It's got to be intentional. Can you imagine that as an adult, we still eat baby's food? We got to change and move on to solid food, and thus grow physically. In the same vein, can we grow in the Lord on the inside of us if we still drink (spiritual) milk and reject solid food? (Heb. 5:12-14)

Has love matured in us? There is one divine way to mature this love. Lovers know this well. When they go through the trials / fires of life, can their love withstand? Does their love get stronger or simply fall apart? The key lies in how we face the fire and 'use' it go higher and grow stronger, both as a person and as lovers. Some things have to go, some things stay, some things change. But most of all, this love grows, and matures... like wine... it gets better!

When I think of asking for the fire of God to refine this love in me (for Him), I think of myself as the clay in His hands. May I stay in the centre of the potter's wheel, in the centre of His will, as He lovingly shapes me and mold me. May I cry out like the Shulamite woman in Songs 4:16 - asking for the north wind (winds of testing) and south wind (winds of God's refreshing and sustaining grace through it all), that love may mature in me, that I may live a life pleasing to God, a fragrant offering to Him, transformed by His grace...

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Verse 1:

You are the Potter

And I am the clay of Your hands

So come and mold me

Mold me and make me like You

Chorus:

(So come and) Test me, Refine me

With Consuming Fire Lord

Till I'm pure and holy

Set apart for You

Till I'm pure and holy

Transformed by Your grace

Bridge:

You are a good good God

You are a good good God

Your boundary lines have fallen

On pleasant places

You are a good good God

You are a good good God

This heart of mine

Will trust in You

Verse 2:

You are the Potter

And I am clay of Your hands

I am Yours

I belong to You...

Come seal me, seal me

Seal me with Your love

(I never want to be apart from You..)