Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
COMMUNICATE!
The Lion breathed out a long, warm breath.
Then came a swift flash and every drop of blood
tingled in the children’s bodies, and the deepest,
wildest voice they ever heard was saying,
‘Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think.
Speak.’
As the drama reached its climax the ambient music glided
upwards from a song about creation to heavenly worship.
Voice and flute, guitar and keyboard harmonised and danced
with the colours as we joined in the spiritual song.
As the anointing of the Spirit fell, the atmosphere became
thick, golden, heavenly. On and on went the sounds, weaving,
blending, soaring. What was programmed for 15 minutes had
run wild in the Spirit. Then people began to come forward,
deeply moved. For Mary, the ecstasy of that moment on New
Year’s day re-awakened her waning love for God. For guitarist
Jez it swallowed up ten years of wilderness.
A.W. Tozer complained that the evangelicals of his day lacked
awe in God and wonder at his creation. Not so the searchers.
As a teenager, I found that sunset, stream and star awakened
in me a deep desire, but the Christians I knew seemed cosmically
numb. Their attitude to the planet was to abandon it as
soon as possible! With such a negative outlook in the church
it was small wonder that all the nature mystics, earth crusaders
and pagans were on the increase.
Our view of creation was positive. We recognised that man
was made in God’s image, and though fallen, he was hardly
Satan’s friend. He desired goodness. This was easier to see
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