God’s Consuming Fire

 

We think we are clean till fire is applied.

It magnifies all that hasn’t died.

It burns away sin throughout our test;

it’s His require before His best.

 

We’re used to His patience, His love and His grace,

but in the fire He hides His face.

Instead of mercy, seems mean and cruel;

we’ve now come under a different rule.

 

His sights are set on what is best,

good no longer His aim;

He stokes and pokes and throws on the coal,

and increases both heat and flame.

 

Once the fire has burned away

all that had not died,

a flood of grace is ushered in

as He shows up at our side.

 

The fire still continues to burn

but not to cleanse our sin;

where once it was there to burn away,

now it burns Him in.

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