on fire

On Fire
By Switchfoot

Tell you where you need to go
Tell you what you need to leave
Tell you what you need to know
Tell you who you need to be
Everything inside you know there's more than what you hear
So much more than empty conversation filled with empty words

And you're on fire when He's near you
You're on fire when He speaks
You're on fire, burning at these mysteries

Give me one more time around
Give me one more chance to see
Give me everything you are
Give me one more chance to be

Everything inside me looks like everything I hate
You are the hope I have for change, You are the only chance I'll take

When I'm on fire when You're near me
I'm on fire when You speak
I'm on fire burning down these mysteries
These mysteries

I've been standing on the edge of me
standing on the edge of me
standing on the edge of me
standing on the edge of me
standing on the edge of everything I've never been before
And I've been standing on the edge of me
standing on the edge

And I'm on fire when You're near me
I'm on fire when You speak
I'm on fire burning at these misteries

I was listening to this song and it just struck me hard with its lyrics and great melody. You can always think of it as a love song but Switchfoot being a Christian band, you're almost always sure that it speaks about God. For me this song talks about one's relationship with Jesus and how He affects each individual who truly believes and tries to follow Him. I'm sure everyone who has experience His unconditional love understands the magnificent feeling one gets when He speaks to us. His embrace and his total commitment to be by our side in times of doubt, pain and misery ignites the fire in all of us.

Personally, this song is a reminder for me that everything that's happening right now that makes me miserable has a purpose. For the past couple of weeks there's been a series of events that made me question Him. I want to just give up on things that God asked me to pursue but He always has an answer. In the end, He alone knows what's ahead. I just have to be hopeful and faithful.

Lord God, "You are the hope I have for change, You are the only chance I'll take."