What's your choice ??

Today at church - it was Pentecost Sunday.

Pentecost (Ancient Greek: πεντηκοστή [ἡμέρα], pentekostē [hēmera], "the fiftieth [day]") is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ.

As we listened to the Band play "Refiners Fire" and then having the opportunity to sing the lyrics, I found myself picking up on a line that I had never considered before.

As with the past several months, new and exciting things are continually happening in my life and as I continue to wait on God for His plan and direction to be made clear, I am finding exciting "revelations" to assist me in my Journey.

The words to the contemporary song read:

Purify my heart
Let me be as gold and precious silver
Purify my heart
Let me be as gold, pure gold

Refiners fire
My heart's one desire
Is to be holy
Set apart for You, Lord
I choose to be holy
Set apart for You, my Master
Ready to do Your will

Purify my heart
Cleanse me from within
And make me holy
Purify my heart
Cleanse me from my sin
Deep within

Refiners fire
My heart's one desire
Is to be holy
Set apart for You, Lord
I choose to be holy
Set apart for You, my Master
Ready to do Your will

Whilst I have often sung - "my hearts one desire is to be holy, set apart for you Lord", I hadn't taken much notice of the line - I choose to be holy.

We all make choices in life and we are responsible for the actions and consequences of our choices.

I have often made choices and then not followed through on them and still, even as I contemplate Gods will for my life, I still make the wrong choices.

I often have "good intentions" but often they still fall away and never get completed.

Today it was a little hard to sing the line "I choose to be holy" and mean it. I felt that this time the choice - to be holy and set apart and ready to do Gods will - needed some more commitment on my behalf to make it a "real" choice.

I am seeking to continue to do further "work" and be useful in extending Gods kingdom, I now need to make some choices that are meaningful and stick to "being holy" so that God can work through me - where ever and when ever He needs me.

Burning, Burning, deeply burning,
Deeply burning holy Fire,
Now, your perfect plan discerning,
Your design is my desire.

Burning, burning, always burning,
Holy Spirit, stay with me;
To your will my will is turning,
What you will I want to be.


What will you choose ?

To be Holy ? To be set apart to do Gods will ?

Are we happy to just go with the flow and not even consider the choice to be Holy ?


My prayer for you (and me) today is:

Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me
Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me
Break me, melt me, mould me, fill me
Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.