Fire In Your Heart

We were riding to daycare this morning and the song "Words" by Hawk Nelson was playing on the radio. I love the chorus to the song, but as we were listening to it J-Man asked me "Is he the devil?"

I paused just for a minute because I was trying to figure out why he asked that, and to fill the void of silence, I asked him to repeat his question. He did. I immdediately told him no. I was going to go into telling him that the devil was in a place called hell, but I started to think that may be a little too deep of a conversation this morning. I am glad I didn't because his next question was "Then why did he say 'fire in your heart'?"

Sidenote: Huh? Why didn't I hear that? Did he really say those words in the song? I had never heard them before. Of course, I got to work this morning and confirmed through a Google search that, yes, in fact Hawk Nelson does say 'fire in your heart' in the verse of the song.

Well, I wasn't really sure what the context was of the phrase he heard because I didn't hear the words when he sang them. However, I told J-Man that he sang it because we should have fire in our hearts for Jesus. We should love Him so much that we are filled with excitement to tell others about Jesus and the love that He has for them. Fire in your heart is just another way of saying it.

"Oh."

After reading the words of the song this morning, I know that isn't really the context that words were in, but I think my explination was good for the question at hand.

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"Words" ~ Hawk Nelson

They've made me feel like a prisoner
They've made me feel set free
They've made me feel like a criminal
Made me feel like a king

They've lifted my heart
To places I'd never been
And they've dragged me down
Back to where I began

Words can build you up
Words can break you down
Start a fire in your heart or
Put it out

Let my words be life
Let my words be truth
I don't wanna say a word
Unless it points the world back to You

You can heal the heartache
Speak over the fear
(Speak over the fear)
God, Your voice is the only thing
We need to hear
(We need to hear)

Words can build us up
Words can break us down
Start a fire in our hearts or
Put it out

Let my words be life
Let my words be truth
I don't wanna say a word
Unless it points the world back to You
(Back to You)

Let the words I say
(Let the words I say)
Be the sound of Your grace
(Sound like Your grace)
I don't wanna say a word
Unless it points the world back to You

I wanna speak Your love
Not just another noise
Oh, I wanna be Your light
I wanna be Your voice

Let my words be life
Let my words be truth
I don't wanna say a word
Unless it points the world back to You
(Back to You)

Let the words I say
(Let the words I say)
Be the sound of Your grace
(Sound like Your grace)
I don't wanna say a word
Unless it points the world back to You
(Back to You)

Words can build us up
Words can break us down
Start a fire in our hearts
Or put it out

I don't wanna say a word
Unless it points the world back to You