The apostle says that our lives should be like a book for others to read. So we should be always putting a match to our spiritual desires. Because our story is the story of redemption. We are not living a normal life. But we have been identified with Christ and we no longer live but Christ lives in us. So a healthy life is one that experiences the passions of the heart through desiring God. And in this we forget about ourselves.

This is because redemptions is exalting Christ. He is the beginning and end of our salvation. He goes out before us like a consuming fire. When we long for our final redemption we understand that in Christ we will be completely victorious. Our desire is like a kings desire. We will be given our eternal inheritance. We will be rewarded if we understand and experience this flame in our hearts that will not go out.

The psalmist says that when he kept quite his heart burned within him. So desire that is kept in because of silence is like a flame that burns. This desire that we keep hot is overcoming our desire of physical pain. We cannot succumb to our fleshly desires. We must understand these cursed dispositions and be alert when we are tempted to look away from this one desire. Sometimes our desire is expressed in His presence with hot displeasure. Because we meet the curse with a curse. The law curses and destroys the destruction of sin. When Christ goes out before us as a fire He destroys our foes on every side. This is our desire for His redemption that is like a fire in our souls.