I believe in you
I'll give up everything just to find you
I have to be with you
To live
To breathe
You're taking over me
"The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a treasure, hid in the field, which when a man hath found, he hides it, and for joy thereof departs, sells all that he hath, and buys the field. Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like to a merchant man that seeketh good pearls, Who having found a pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it." ~Matthew 13: 44-46
The way that
You move me
Takes me far away
I seek no escape
I'm overtaken
By the way that you deliver me
There's no place I'd rather be
Without you I'm incomplete
It's hopeless
You consume me
Holy, Devoted,
I immerse myself in you
Drowning in the thought of you
Taken by the things you do
Doesn't matter what I lose
I'm yours
You consume me
Like a burning flame, running through my veins
"Jesus then said to his disciples, If any man will follow me, let him forsake himself: take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever shall save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it. For what shall it profit a man though he should win the whole world, if he lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give for recompense of his soul? ~Matthew 16:24-26
Sometimes, I don't get what I want. I will have ideas about how things should be, and they don't turn out that way. I can't help but wonder why this bad stuff keeps happening to me. Every time this happens though, I get hit with the realization of how blessed I really am. I'm a Christian! Christ has called me to be with him forever and ever!
All my righteousness is as dirty rags, I look absolutely filthy in the sight of God. The living dead-without Christ. With Christ you change from this creature abandoned to be cast away from God for all eternity, into a servant of that same God. So Christ offers a hand out of the pit, and says that if we are to follow him we are to forsake ourselves. Forsake everything that we want.
It's worth it, for Jesus is the great treasure, the kingdom of heaven. When I think of how utterly dead I am without Christ and how ugly I must look in the sight of God, I'm amazed that God would choose me. Me? Of all people? Christ is the good pearl, and good things certainly happen to bad people; because i'm a bad person.
It's worth it. It's totally worth it. I pray I can show the fruits of the spirit, for faith without works is dead. Don't make the mistake of thinking I am saved by works, because frankly I'm not. Nobody is. For every good work I have given, ten evil works have been done. True Christians will show their faith in their life, not be justified by it.
I want to show that Christ lives in me. I give up everything I have, everything I want, I trust it all to Christ. I lay it on the altar.
Everything is yours Lord, I am facedown on the ground, ready to do your will and to follow your desires. My Lord, My Captain, My King, My God,
My Savior.
Oh, the deep deep love of Jesus
Vast unmeasured, boundless free
Rolling as a mighty ocean
In it's fullness over me
Underneath me
All around me
Is the current of thy love
Leading onward
Leading homeward
To thy glorious rest above
