Lord, I thank You that by grace and mercy You have fanned into burning flame my love and desire for You. Your holy word teaches that I only love because You first loved me. You initiate... I respond. Then my heartfelt devotion causes Your flame to burst into white hot inner fire. Consume me entirely like that wilderness shrub, that some disillusioned refugee might see and go forth to deliver nations.   

"...there are some, I rejoice to acknowledge, who... want to taste, to touch with their hearts, to see with their inner eyes the wonder that is God. I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God.... Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted." (A.W. Tozer).