Keep Me Burning

Words and Music by Josh Yeoh and Sherman Wong. 
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For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
(2 Corinthians 4:17-18)

A significant passage for our community during Behold40, a forty-day journey of beholding Jesus together, was the Parable of the Ten Virgins in Matthew 25. At a Prayer Room set, Natalie prayed from this passage, calling us to be like the five wise virgins who stored oil in their lamps, and reminding us of the old Sunday school song, Give Me Oil In My Lamp. Deeply impacted, Sherman and I began crafting a song around this chorus as a prayer for the Church as we await the return of the Bridegroom.

- Josh Yeoh

Lyrics

“Though I sleep, my heart’s awake / my prayer will still remain”

The road of faithfulness is long and requires patient endurance. Even the most faithful grow weary in the waiting. I love that, through His grace that sustains, in the highs and lows, through the mundane, through global pandemics, our hearts can remain awake, anticipating, longing for the Day we see Him face to face.