Having just finished a profitable week of church prayer and fasting, I woke this morning mulling over the boundaries challenged, yet knowing there were others still a’waiting, with this thought:
There’s a difference between giving something all that’s needed and giving something your all.
Giving all that’s needed MAY involve great risk and require great sacrifice without laying claim to all of you.
Giving your all, eventually costs you your life and ultimately, relentlessly, works in you until your identity has been reshaped by the sacrifices and risks you’ve made.
Our identity; what we value, how we see ourselves and how we project ourselves to the world around us, is likely the great treasure hidden in the soil of all of our hearts.
As I’ve aged and grown as a believer, I’ve matured enough to willingly risk and sacrifice for the greater good. Even in that, I know it’s not enough.
I won’t be able to stay the same individual, with the same interests, appetites and practices and attain unto the Lord’s intended purpose for my stay on the planet.
God give me, Lord give us all, the grace and wisdom to strive unto spiritual excellence, then let us go beyond. Let none of us comfortably replace the goal of perfection in Christ with our own sense of having simply done enough.