Psalm 27:8
You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, LORD, do I seek.”

“Tozer was a man driven by a desire to know more of God. In fact he once said to his long-time friend, Robert W. Battles, “I want to love God more than anyone in my generation.” To some of us that may sound selfish and arrogant, but for Tozer it wasn’t. It simply came out of an honest desire to enrich his relationship with the Lord.” [The Pursuit of God Study Guide, Session 1: Introduction]

Dear Fellowship of the Burning Heart:

Most of us have something we desire so much that we are willing to do almost anything to get it. That dream job, that vast fortune, that dreamy guy or girl, the dream home, these are certainly high on the list for many. But to love God? And especially to love him more than anyone else you know? Some might think that a selfish response (but then what about those other dreams?)

I think that the desire to know and love God supremely (and as deeply as we possibly can) is a worthy and Biblical goal.

Deuteronomy 6:5    You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

What else could this mean, if not such a total love?

Matthew 10:37-38 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

I think it’s time we stop playing games with God and decide: are we in or out? There is no halfway, no middle ground, no straddling the fence. There is no dispassionate Christianity, no bland faith, no partial commitment. There is just burning hot zeal, passionate devotion, sold-out commitment or coldness and deadness. The attempt to appear neutral, to steer middle ground, to take the nonchalant, casual approach, makes God sick (see Revelation 3:16).

The kind of passion that burns with intensity and persistency is a mark of The Fellowship of the Burning Heart. So, tell me, where do you stand? Are you all in or all out?