For what we hold as our “one thing” defines the life we lead.
Do I desire with all my heart to dwell within His gates?
To gaze upon my blessed Lord? To worship at His feet?
Or is there something here I seek, some treasure dear to man?
The great deceiver does his best to fool me if he dcan.
For money, praise or fame he’ll make appear before my eyes;
He tries to make me think of them as something I should prize.
Perhaps it is a “something good” – no harm it seems to hold;
A spouse, a child, a cause so dear; a friendship made of gold.
Yet if I value it too much, to it devote my life
In serving it I’ll lose that joy for which Christ paid the price.
And if I can resist those lures, there’s yet another snare;
I try so hard to serve my Lord, yet trouble, grief or care
Can quickly come if I’m to tired to spend some time with Him,
For then I start to look around: my spiritual sight grows dim.
“One thing I know …” – I once was blind, and He has given sight,
Has shown me that I need His help to set my goals aright.
Oh Lord, I ask, let my “one thing” while here on earth below
Be all my days to follow You, Your glory forth to show.
You’ve taken hold of me, my Lord; Your work begun in me,
You’ve shown to me the value of committing time to be
Apart with You to start each day, to read Your Word, to pray;
To quietly commune with you; to hear what You will say.
So by your power in me, my God, this “one thing” do I claim;
Forgetting that which is behind, toward the goal I strain
To win that prize for which, O God, You’re heavenward calling me
In Christ my Lord: Him will I praise throughout eternity.
EF - June 2009
After finishing Kelly Minter's "No Other Gods" study: functional vs professed gods. Is there something, even something right and good in itself, that I unknowingly am "serving" instead of Christ?
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