Be My Everything

"You're everything
I could want and I could need
I can just, feel your touch
and I can't breathe
And how you shine so
the blind can see
and how you call out
you beckon me
the deaf hear the voice of love
you bid me come
and the cripple run
You're the one"

-David Crowder

I don't know if we realize how frightening these words can be. It's hard to understand what it means for God to be our everything. I mean, how much would you have to give up if you truly wanted God to be the only thing you need? What if he took everything away? Could you worship Him still, like Job did? (See verse)  As hard as it may be to come to a place where you can trust Him alone, we can know that He is able and sufficient to be everything we need. The same God who spoke the universe into existence is the one who cares for us. He certainly cared enough about you to send His own Son to save us from death. Romans 6:23 shows us our need for Him to save us from it. He became a curse for us that we may no longer feel the sting of death. And if we trust in Him, we will find that He is able to be all that we need.

The Relinquished Life

Sorry it's been a while since my last post. I have had severe writer's block in the past few weeks! I was blessed by reading the March 8th reading in Oswald Chambers' My Utmost For His Highest, and so I would like to share it with you. I hope it helps you also in your walk with the Lord.

"I am crucified with Christ." Galatians 2:20 No one is ever united with Jesus Christ until he is willing to relinquish not sin only, but his whole way of looking at things. To be born from above of the Spirit of God means that we must let go before we lay hold, and in the first stages it is the relinquishing of all pretence. What Our Lord wants us to present to Him is not goodness, nor honesty, nor endeavour, but real solid sin; that is all He can take from us. And what does He give in exchange for our sin? Real solid righteousness. But we must relinquish all pretence of being any thing, all claim of being worthy of God's consideration. Then the Spirit of God will show us what further there is to relinquish. There will have to be the relinquishing of my claim to my right to myself in every phase. Am I willing to relinquish my hold on all I possess, my hold on my affections, and on everything, and to be identified with the death of Jesus Christ? There is always a sharp painful disillusionment to go through before we do relinquish. When a man really sees himself as the Lord sees him, it is not the abominable sins of the flesh that shock him, but the awful nature of the pride of his own heart against Jesus Christ. When he sees himself in the light of the Lord, the shame and the horror and the desperate conviction come home. If you are up against the question of relinquishing, go through the crisis, relinquish all, and God will make you fit for all that He requires of you.