Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
its jealousy as enduring as the grave.
Love flashes like fire,
the brightest kind of flame. (Song of Solomon 8:6)
I was praying this verse today and the Lord began to work on my heart with a word picture of sorts. He told me that His intention was for me to internalize the love that flashes like fire and produces the brightest kind of flame, His love. When He applies his seal over my heart with that flame locked inside, it produces a burning fiery furnace.
Next, the Lord showed me the following verse:
So I advise you to buy gold from me—gold that has been purified by fire. Then you will be rich….(Revelation 3:18)
The Lord began to show me that His desire is for me to create a furnace in my heart that burns with His passionate love for me. He desires for my heart to burn until the impurities begin to rise to the top. Once this happens, the Holy Spirit can scoop them away with one fell swoop.
I think there are millions of people who are flooding the counseling rooms of our churches with disfunctions that can’t be counseled out. I believe that the human heart was designed to house the revival fire of a love-sick God, and that dysfunction is a result of the displacement of the passionate persuit of God from the center of our being.
I’m going to do more on the concept of this furnace of the heart in a couple of days as the Lord continues to reveal it to me. Be blessed.
