A Spring of Joy

Walking in the early morning hours, watching day brighten the already beautiful flower framed streets, nodding heads and exchanging greetings with the other walkers, I talk with God. I love walking and telling Him about my life. I love sharing my heart with Him. And I love that I can hold nothing back, because He knows it all already. It has been good to be home to my morning routine. Yesterday my prayer was for a heart that yearns for Him, and I couldn’t stop singing Shane & Shane’s song, Yearn (found on An Evening With Shane & Shane). I made it my prayer, and it has been burned into my mind and heart since.

Written by Shane Barnard, Yearn speaks of that desire to be completely consumed by God. I get so distracted by myself that I forget God. Even my prayers for a changed heart are tainted with the desire that my changed heart would please others. Why am I so consumed with what others think of me rather than being enraptured with God and His beauty? Oh for a heart full of God! He has given me life and breath, and I desire to burn so completely for Him and I long daily for a deeper relationship with Him. I truly want to yearn for Him and only Him.

Holy design
This place in time
That I might seek and find my God
My God

Lord I want to yearn for You
I want to burn with passion
Over You and only You
Lord I want to yearn for You
I want to burn with passion
Over You and only You
Lord I want to yearn

Your joy is mine
Yet why am I fine
With all my singing and bringing grain
In light of Him

I want to yearn for You
I want to burn with passion
Over You and only You
Lord I want to yearn for You
I want to burn with passion
Over You and only You

Oh You give life and breath
Through Him You give all things
In Him we live and move
That’s why I sing

Lord I want to yearn for You
I want to burn with passion
Over You and only You
Lord I want to yearn for You
I want to burn with passion
Over You and only You
Lord I want to yearn

(Acts 17:25-28, Hebrews 12:28-29)

What is consuming you this week?