“May I learn to love without limits, conditions or expectations. May this love burden me and weigh heavily upon my heart. May it be an unquenchable thirst and an insatiable hunger.
May it be all consuming; may it stretch me; may it break me and may it have all of me. I pray that this love costs me.
May I lay my life down for the sake of love. May all of my securities comforts and pleasures be disregarded. Without this baptism of love, I am empty, hopeless and lost. So I say this gladly, boldly and expectantly, ‘My God, my God, have your way in my life and may your way cost me everything. ” -Luke Watson
I am reminded every day, as we pour out in alongside an incredible organization that feeds and cares for the wellbeing of homeless and poverty stricken in Port Elizabeth- I can not return to the States without intention. I don’t want to return without dreams of bigger and better for those around me. I don’t want to return to sit in a church pew on Sunday and call that religion. I don’t want to forget that God is relational and everywhere.
I’m praying gladly, boldly and expectantly that I’m wrecked beyond compare. That the love Jesus has brought me into in this year changes everything. I’m praying that it costs me everything.
