You Are My Fire, My One Desire!
I woke up hearing a Backstreet Boys song today, LOL. Specifically these words,” You are My Fire, My one desire.”
And I started writing this Word from The Father’s Burning Heart to you, His Beloved. Oh, how He loves us so!
“Its flashes are flashes of Fire.
Its coals are coals of Fire from The Altar.
Its sparks leap like Living Embers in your heart.
I AM The Master of the Flame. Not a fire that destroys or consumes you into nothing, but a Holy Fire that seals you into Me forever.
Set Me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm!
You are marked and sealed with the precious Holy Fire, The Spirit. You are not claimed casually. You are Mine!
You are dear, chosen, precious, set apart as My Own possession.
This Fire is the very Flame of The LORD! It is the Flame of Yahweh!
Love as strong as death burns within Me toward you.
A love that does not retreat.
A love that does not share the object of My Passion.
A love that will not let you go.
It is a zealous Love,
It is a Holy Ardent Love.
A Love that will not relent.
A passion so fierce it burns red with flame.
It is not an insecure or selfish Love.
But My Love is unyielding, inexorable, eternal. It cannot be extinguished!
Give Me every part of you, the good and bad. I will give you Beauty for ashes.
This is the Fire that burns without destroying, that refines without shaming, that marks without harming.
I placed this same Fire in My Son. My Fire is a consuming Fire.
He paid the price to seal you into Me forever. It has been kindled on earth.
And now, that Fire rests upon you, My Child.
It is covenant power.
It is love that prays.
Love that intercedes.
Love that pours itself out.
Love that burns even when unseen.
You carry sparks that come from heaven and return to heaven.
An Indestructible Flame.
A Holy Fire that cannot be extinguished.
Fear not, Dear One.
Once burning for Me, always burning for Me.
Burning in Me. Burning with Me.
I have sealed you. I have claimed you.
I have set My Flame within your heart.
Its flashes are flashes of Fire.
Its coals are coals of Fire from the Altar.
Its sparks leap like Living Embers in your heart.
Tongues of Flame are still falling.
You are Sons and Daughters of the Burning Heart.
Carriers of Living Coals, Keepers of Holy Flame!
I AM The Master of the Flame — forever you are Mine!”
“Set me as a seal on Your heart, as a seal on Your arm. For love is as strong as death; jealousy [ardent passion] as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, [A most vehement flame] the very flame of The LORD! [Yahweh]” Song of Solomon 8:6.
SEAL : See Jeremiah 22:24; Haggai 2:23, &c. A symbol of something especially dear and precious. Marked as a possession, as a signet ring.
JEALOUSY : Strong passion, from a word meaning to be red with flame; not in a bad sense, as the parallelism shows: “Strong as death is love, Inexorable as Sheol is ardent passion.” “Jealousy” is here another term for “love,” expressing the inexorable force and ardor of this affection, which can neither yield nor share possession of its object.
A MOST VEHEMENT FLAME : Literally, “A Flame of Yah,” the only place where the sacred name occurs in the book. here, as in the Authorised Version, to express something superlatively great and strong. Southey’s lines are a faint echo of this:—
“But love is indestructible, its holy flame for ever burneth, from heaven it came, to heaven returneth.”
COALS : Hebrew” resheph;” as in Psalm 78:48, hot thunderbolts (comp. Habakkuk 3:5); in Job 5:7, sparks; Sons of the burning: “the coals thereof are coals of fire. R.V.” The flashes thereof are flashes of fire. Love glows and burns in the heart like flame. “It burns and melts my heart like fire.”
The zeal that burned in Jesus Christ (Psalm 69:9; Luke 12:49, 50) kindled in His followers (Acts 2:3; Romans 15:30; Philippians 2:17).
(Barne’s Notes, Benson Commentary, Matthew Henry Commentary)
~ Deborah Waldron Fry
Lovely..thank you.
So, Beautiful!!!