Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSCOMMUNICATE!The Lion breathed out a long, warm breath.Then came a swift flash and every drop of bloodtingled 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 glidedupwards from a song about creation to heavenly worship.Voice and flute, guitar and keyboard harmonised and dancedwith the colours as we joined in the spiritual song.As the anointing of the Spirit fell, the atmosphere becamethick, golden, heavenly. On and on went the sounds, weaving,blending, soaring. What was programmed for 15 minutes hadrun wild in the Spirit. Then people began to come forward,deeply moved. For Mary, the ecstasy of that moment on NewYear’s day re-awakened her waning love for God. For guitaristJez it swallowed up ten years of wilderness.A.W. Tozer complained that the evangelicals of his day lackedawe in God and wonder at his creation. Not so the searchers.As a teenager, I found that sunset, stream and star awakenedin me a deep desire, but the Christians I knew seemed cosmicallynumb. Their attitude to the planet was to abandon it assoon as possible! With such a negative outlook in the churchit was small wonder that all the nature mystics, earth crusadersand pagans were on the increase.Our view of creation was positive. We recognised that manwas made in God’s image, and though fallen, he was hardlySatan’s friend. He desired goodness. This was easier to see359