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
Lord, restore the joy I had
I have wandered, bring me back
In this darkness, lead me through
Until all I see is You
Lord, let me burn for You again
Let me return to You again
And Lord, let me burn for You again
And let me return to You again
Third Day
Mac Powell, Tai Anderson, Mark Lee, David Carr,
along with Brenton Brown, Matt Maher
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Restore to me the joy of Your salvation.
Psalm 51:12 AMP
“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too easily satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart” – A. W. Tozer
This song has been stuck in my head for weeks. I finally gave in and decided to use it for my blog. Why was I so unwilling to write about it? I am not sure. I want to believe I am longing for His ways instead of my own. But perhaps I am not….
We are all pursuing something. We are chasing after dreams and desires, seeking to secure the things we are passionate about. Sometimes pursuing our own goals and pursuing God become mutually exclusive. We run hard after success and security. And sometimes along the way we lose our joy and our passion for God. We become consumed by obtaining more worldly wealth and lose sight of our eternal wealth.
Why do we waste our time running after things that will never satisfy us? Too often it takes a disaster, a tragedy, a major loss or failure for God to regain our attention. It would be so much easier on us if we would continually seek revival in our souls…if we made a conscious decision daily to run hard after God.
Matthew Henry stated,
“Wherever there is true grace there is a desire for more grace.”
King David put it like this,
“My soul follows hard after You: Your right hand upholds me.” (Psalm 63:8)
We should be hot on the heels of God—earnestly, and expectantly, seeking Him. It requires effort and endurance on our part but the rewards we reap cannot be counted or contained.
Maybe this song has been stuck in my mind as a personal reminder to be running after God’s heart. Maybe it is to bring me back from my worldly wanderings and restore the joy that can only be found in an intimate relationship with God. Perhaps this song will remain in my mind and in my heart until I, again, have a soul on fire.
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Lord, please help me return to You again. Restore my joy, let it abound in me. May I daily run hard after Your heart and may Your right hand uphold me. In Jesus’ name, Amen – it is so!
