I was working on the Fantastic Focused Follower program, listening to praise music, when the song, Soul on Fire began. It summarizes what the Fantastic Focused Follower concept is all about, a Soul on Fire.
Consider the first verse:
God, I’m running for Your heart
I’m running for Your heart
Till I am a soul on fire
Lord, I’m longing for Your ways
I’m waiting for the day
When I am a soul on fire
Till I am a soul on fire
The essence of being a Fantastic Focused Follower is not just having a desire to know and share the heart of God, but to do so with such enthusiasm that it’s best described as “running” for that heart. It’s not just wanting to have the heart of God, sharing His desires and His thoughts but “longing for Your ways.”
I don’t know why we think that we can have the heart of God without action.
After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do. Acts 13:22.
We have to run after the heart of God and long to do the things God would have us do. Perhaps most important of all is to realize that we can’t run ahead of God. We can’t have the enthusiasm, the motivation, the longing, and certainly not the action without the intervention of God himself. I’m waiting for the day, when I am a soul on fire. We have to want, earnestly desire and run after being a soul on fire for God, but only God can light that fire.
Why is having a soul on fire for God so important? Because without it we are joyless, purposeless, lost, wandering and in darkness. We are distracted by all the world has to offer, unable to see the God who loves and created us.
Lord, restore the joy I had
I have wandered, bring me back
In this darkness, lead me through
Until all I see is You
God, I’m running for Your heart
I’m running for Your heart
Till I am a soul on fire
Lord, I’m longing for Your ways
I’m waiting for the day
When I am a soul on fire
Till I am a soul on fire
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