I was reading through "The Pursiut of God" by A. W. Tozer today, and I came across this prayer, which captures just where my heart is at today. Enjoy!
"O God, be Thou exalted over my possessions. Nothing of earth's treasures shall seem dear unto me if only Thou art glorified in my life. Be Thou exalted over my friendships. I am determined that Thou shalt be above allm though I must stand deserted and alone in the midst of the earth. Be Thou exalted obove my comforts. Though it mean the loss of bodily comforts and the carrying of heavy crosses, I shall keep my vow made this day before Thee. Be Thou exalted over my reputation. Make me ambitious to please Thee even if as a result I must sink into obscurity and my name be forgotten as a dream. Rise, O Lord, into Thy proper place of honor, above my ambitions, above my likes and dislikes, above my family, my health and even my life itself. Let me sink that Thou mayest rise above. Ride forth upon me as Thou didst ride into Jerusalem mounted upon the himble little beast, as colt, the foal of an ass, ans let me hear the children cry to Thee, 'Hosanna in the highest.' Amen."
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
At Last
Between my grandmother's journey home, Christmas, and school, keeping up on my blog has definitely taken a back seat. No more excuses. I'm determined to keep this up!
To update all that has taken place in my relationship with Jesus over the past few months would require an editor and a publisher, so I will have to stick to what I have been grasping most recently.
First of all, I feel like I'm learning some very elementary "milk" principles at a much deeper level than I've ever encountered before. For instance, God is EVERYWHERE. Wherever I am, He is with me. This concept is still way beyond me, but what little of it I am able to grasp is amazing! He's always beckoning me to talk to Him, to communicate with Him through His Word, and to share the love and grace that He has given me with everyone I brush shoulders with.
Similarly, God knows everything. He knows every detail of every soul that ever has and ever will walk this planet, and He loves each and every single one of us with a love that we can never return! It blows my mind to think of the number of people that have ever lived and know that God knows more about each of them than they ever knew about themselves. Not only that, but God had a plan for all of them. I'm lucky if I can remember 500 people's names and faces, let alone billions! Yet this is the God we serve! This is the God who sent His Son to pay a price that we could never earn on our own. This God seeks to have an intimate relationship with YOU and with ME! Praise His name!
I'm very excited to share that I will be writing an exegesis (an in-depth study and interpretation of a particular passage of Scripture) as a final project in my current class. Despite the fact that it will end up being 9-14 pages in length, I'm incredibly stoked to dig into God's Word in a way that I never have! I have chosen to do mine on Colossians 1:15-23, which reads:
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister."
I'm looking forward to digging into this passage! It's one of my very favorites! :)
To update all that has taken place in my relationship with Jesus over the past few months would require an editor and a publisher, so I will have to stick to what I have been grasping most recently.
First of all, I feel like I'm learning some very elementary "milk" principles at a much deeper level than I've ever encountered before. For instance, God is EVERYWHERE. Wherever I am, He is with me. This concept is still way beyond me, but what little of it I am able to grasp is amazing! He's always beckoning me to talk to Him, to communicate with Him through His Word, and to share the love and grace that He has given me with everyone I brush shoulders with.
Similarly, God knows everything. He knows every detail of every soul that ever has and ever will walk this planet, and He loves each and every single one of us with a love that we can never return! It blows my mind to think of the number of people that have ever lived and know that God knows more about each of them than they ever knew about themselves. Not only that, but God had a plan for all of them. I'm lucky if I can remember 500 people's names and faces, let alone billions! Yet this is the God we serve! This is the God who sent His Son to pay a price that we could never earn on our own. This God seeks to have an intimate relationship with YOU and with ME! Praise His name!
I'm very excited to share that I will be writing an exegesis (an in-depth study and interpretation of a particular passage of Scripture) as a final project in my current class. Despite the fact that it will end up being 9-14 pages in length, I'm incredibly stoked to dig into God's Word in a way that I never have! I have chosen to do mine on Colossians 1:15-23, which reads:
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister."
I'm looking forward to digging into this passage! It's one of my very favorites! :)
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