Three questions that have been pounding in my head and in my heart, over and over again this week, are – Do I? Am I? Will I?
Do I… do I go where He leads? Do I say what He says? Do I pray like He prays? Do I love like He loves?
Am I… am I really and truly His?
Will I… will I surrender all? Will I allow Him to do His work in and through me? Will I die?
He died for one – for me – and for all. He died for me and for you and for the orphan in Swaziland. His life was worth just one… mine. His life was worth just one… yours. His life was worth just one… the orphan in Swaziland. Is mine? Is my life worth just one?
He gave up His life so that I could have one! Will I? Would I trade my life “for just one”… would one be worth it? Would I die – give up absolutely everything – life as I know it so that just one could have it – a life? Quitting my job, leaving my home, selling my stuff, abandoning all American traditions to travel out into the, possibly, unsafe world… would all that be worth it if it only benefited one person? If I traveled all the way around the world and the only thing I accomplished for the Kingdom was in one person… if only one person was changed because of me – would it be worth it? If only one person was set free, healed, saved, loved – just one… would it be worth it?
I don’t always, I am not always, and I won’t always be like Jesus. But because He gave it all for me I will say YES – I will and it would be worth it! I will give over my life to you, Jesus, to use it for another. Because He loved me first I will say YES – I will and it is worth it to go out into the world and be love – your love- to the nations.
Lord, please take all my expectations and all my desires and all my wants and all my hopes and please just use my as you wish… as you planned. If you use me to shake the nations or if you use me for one specific person – either way, living every moment in your presence, living out the Gospel and bringing the Kingdom is worth more than absolutely anything and everything else of this world!! Thank you, Father, for the life you bring to us and the life you pour into us for us to pour into others! God you are awesome!!!
Yes, Lord, it is worth it if I just reach one!
