to the only Great that became the Least for me,
Your grace knows no bounds -- You have given me Yourself and Your love -- whenever i set my mind on these things, i would willingly give everything else -- that i ever had or ever wanted -- in exchange for You.
and yet, You give me Yourself for free. and i forget all about You, and start asking myself why i do not have what i want. why don't i have a boyfriend? why don't i have a spectacular career? why am i not the best? why don't i have respect and love?
when all along i already have everything that i want! i have the most beautiful Being! i have a love that is more than love! i have all the strength in the universe -- because the Ever-Strong has given me His strength. i have light -- the original and eternal Light! i have the water and the bread of Life! God's presence is the air that i breathe and the beauty i see and the very life within me!
everything else that i have or ever could have is of no value whatsoever when compared with Jesus Christ.
when i set my mind on things above:
*a career is meaningless and a waste of time
*the respect of men is superficial and fleeting and worthless as well as fueled by pride
*a relationship is tedious and romance is a lie
*the love of men is capricious and shallow
these things are not bad, but neither are they God.
nothing and no one could ever compare to the One Who saves me.
He is my hiding place and my paradise.
glory to God in the highest
and on earth, peace, good-will toward men.
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