"....Let us...run with endurance the race...looking unto Jesus...." (From Hebrews 12)
"Naught be all else to me save that Thou art."
For me, this means that I don't attempt to create Jesus in my image. No matter the "answered" or "unanswered" prayers, the insight into the Scriptures or lake thereof, "Naught be all else to me save that Thou art." There is a stay-exactly-the-way-You-are in this.
Not what my "flesh" may want You to be and do, but rather, Who You are is Whom I love, praise and serve.
"I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene,
And wonder how He could love me,
A sinner condemned, unclean.
For me it was in the garden,
He prayed: 'Not My will, but Thine.'
He had no tears for His own griefs,
But sweat-drops of Blood for mine.
He took my sins and my sorrows,
He made them His very own;
He bore the burden to Calv'ry,
And suffered, and died alone.
When with the ransomed in glory
His Face I at last shall see,
'Twill be my joy through the ages
To sing of His love for me.
Chorus:
How marvelous! How wonderful
And my song shall ever be:
How marvelous! How wonderful!
Is my Savior's love for me!
Father, in Jesus' Name, "Naught be all else to me save that Thou art." Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
