I cannot believe how fast these last 6 and a half weeks have gone! Seriously! My heart is fully alive beating with a steady beat. My heart is full; full of delight, full of laughter, full of grace. My heart is happy. I have never in my life let my guard down long enough, opened my heart up wide enough, embraced friendships with long term expectation, and smiled this much consistently.
I am so in love with this man Jesus! His mercies are more than I can handle! His Love is ridiculously extravegant! He knows me! He knows me! He loves me! He protects! He provides! His voice... oh His voice!! With one word He creates! With one word He breaks chains! With one word He has stolen my heart! I am forever wrecked. I cannot ever live an ordinary life. I must go where He is. I must walk where He has walked. I must be available for disposal. I must die to my desires for others to live. I want to see the broken restored, the deaf hearing, the blind seeing, the dead raised to life again, and the lost saved. Does it really take death for all that? Yes!
But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3:7-11
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