You're on Fire!

You’re on Fire!
By Sharon Byrd

A light flickers within me

Calling to my very soul,

Asking me to follow with abandonment.

Count the cost, it whispers,

And then again: Count the cost.

Wider and wider become my eyes.

As they begin to focus

Secrets start making sense.

Scales fall.

What was distant suddenly seems

Not so distant

Anymore.

The light flickers within me

To my very soul.

The heat warms everything inside me.

There is excitement,

Anticipation that comes from knowledge.

From secrets revealed,

Truths come into focus and lives change

My life

Changes.

The light flickers within,

Beckoning my very soul,

Asking me to walk – no, run! –

To the Source of the light.

Fear becomes focus

As the blood of Jesus

Literally

Empties my sin,

Clearing my conscience to the core.

Leaving a fresh,

New, empty wineskin,

Waiting to be filled.

The Light flickers in front,

Above, behind, beside me.

In front

To draw me,

Behind

To push and protect,

Above

To cover and allow me

To hide under His wing.

Beside

To remind me

I am never alone.

The Fire of my very soul

Calls to you, calls to me,

Continually.

For His flame

Will never be quenched.

His flame is eternal.

What then can separate us from the love of God?