But the metaphor of flame and light sparked my imagination to track the Flame through Scripture: revealing, refining, and sustaining. I wrote the first 3 verses in 2010 but it didn’t feel finished until I dug a bit deeper in 2014, finding the natural conclusion in Isaiah: the promise of the candle fulfilled in cosmically enduring nuclear fusion.
Even beyond the words, it seems that this song is about the Holy Spirit, and there's something about this song for me that points to the future. There's something in the margins that not only carries an echo of the times we're living in, and also the future of the 'ekklesia'.
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A burning
light, a fragile flame;
A hope that
shines when all else has failed.
It’s been
so dark, I long to see,
Waiting for
fire God, waiting for fire;
We walk in
shadows, come light the way,
Waiting for
fire, God
Refining
fire, consume my pain;
Consume my
selfishness, all I hope to gain.
For what I
lose, is yours to take;
Burn it
away God, burn it away.
Forget
perfection, I need grace;
Waiting for
fire, God
A burning
bush that doesn’t die,
Your flames
of fire keeping me alive.
The death I
die, the life I live;
Burning for
you God, Burning for you.
So let me
be the light we need;
Waiting for
fire, God
A blazing
fire, a shining sun,
Burning
stronger than when it first began.
Light
everlasting, the brightest dawn;
Waiting for
fire God, waiting for fire.
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