Give Me Jesus

"You can have all this world, just give me Jesus!"

This past weekend I went to NOVA to see my best friend for her birthday. As crazy as things have been for me lately (as I'm sure you read in my last post), it was great to get away for a mini vaca and spend time with her. It was not only comfort for me to get away, but it was comfort to get away and be with the person who probably knows me best. I am able to just strip myself down to who I am and she will always accept me. Not to say her and I haven't had some bumps, but what friendship doesn't. Anyway, so she wanted to go to this church called LifePoint on Sunday so I was down. We seriously could not find this place. We drove around Fredricksburg for 30 minutes trying to find it. We went to this other church and asked a couple in the parking lot if they knew where it was, and luckily they knew where the school was that it was being held in. Praise God we got there, late, but we got there. We missed a good part of the worship which I was bummed about because that can really be my way of expressing love for my Savior, but then a pastor (a LU grad) got up and just started out by saying he didn't care if what he was about to talk about was going to offend people because he was going to talk about Truth. He started talking about how our world now is a "my right" society. Everyone thinks they can do what they want, and say what they want because it is "their right". Obviously, that is ridiculous! Sure, we have rights, but there are limits on those rights. Anyway, he also talked about how Christians today may have a lot of head knowledge about Jesus, but not enough application. We become a child of demands instead of bowing down before our King! I have been guilty of this. Alot. When I pray, I find that I am going through the list of things that I need help with or even things that I just plain want. I fail to remember that I am speaking to an All-Powerful, Mighty, KING who deserves for me to fall down on my face and just be thankful. He deserves for me to just surrender. And surrender everything, not just the things I am willing to give up. Those things that I cling so tightly to...those are the things I must surrender most.