The song to me narrates two scenarios through the verses. The story from how I'm going to give it is about a newborn in Christ. In the first verse, it's as if he's describing how the church is. They tell you where you need to go to experience God, but yet they have a schedule for it, so they have a closing time telling you when you to leave. (Though you can experience God anywhere at anytime!) The pastor teaches you of sin, which tells you everything you are, and he tells you about how you're  supposed to strive to be like Jesus, which tells you who you need to be.
Then service ends and you've got supposedly more "seasoned" Christians who come to talk to you about God, but it's as if they don't believe a word they're saying. Their words and conversations are empty. But you know the truth, you know how you feel, you know there's so much more than this, and you're about to burst and can't describe it, all you know is you're on fire when He's near you. You're on fire when you hear Him speak. You're on fire and awestruck, burning at His mysteries.
The second verse takes you to the the place where you've tripped in your walk. Everyone has, does, and will continue to sin. It's by grace of a loving, but a just God, and a sinner's repentive heart that He forgives us. But once you've truly encountered God, you can't go without Him, you have to be near Him, you have to feel that fire. And so you're begging God to forgive you for what you've done. You know that everything you are is wrong, but that your only hope for change is through God. Which the fact that you have a repentive heart shows that God has changed you already. But no matter what it takes, you have to be on fire in God's presence again.
We have our own beliefs, but I will not apologize for mine. "Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. (John 14:6 NLT)" "If anyone is ashamed of me and my message, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in his glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels. (Luke 9:26 NLT)" "I will speak to kings about your laws,
and I will not be ashamed. (Psalm 119:46 NLT)"
The song to me narrates two scenarios through the verses. The story from how I'm going to give it is about a newborn in Christ. In the first verse, it's as if he's describing how the church is. They tell you where you need to go to experience God, but yet they have a schedule for it, so they have a closing time telling you when you to leave. (Though you can experience God anywhere at anytime!) The pastor teaches you of sin, which tells you everything you are, and he tells you about how you're  supposed to strive to be like Jesus, which tells you who you need to be. Then service ends and you've got supposedly more "seasoned" Christians who come to talk to you about God, but it's as if they don't believe a word they're saying. Their words and conversations are empty. But you know the truth, you know how you feel, you know there's so much more than this, and you're about to burst and can't describe it, all you know is you're on fire when He's near you. You're on fire when you hear Him speak. You're on fire and awestruck, burning at His mysteries. The second verse takes you to the the place where you've tripped in your walk. Everyone has, does, and will continue to sin. It's by grace of a loving, but a just God, and a sinner's repentive heart that He forgives us. But once you've truly encountered God, you can't go without Him, you have to be near Him, you have to feel that fire. And so you're begging God to forgive you for what you've done. You know that everything you are is wrong, but that your only hope for change is through God. Which the fact that you have a repentive heart shows that God has changed you already. But no matter what it takes, you have to be on fire in God's presence again. We have our own beliefs, but I will not apologize for mine. "Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. (John 14:6 NLT)" "If anyone is ashamed of me and my message, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in his glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels. (Luke 9:26 NLT)" "I will speak to kings about your laws, and I will not be ashamed. (Psalm 119:46 NLT)"