Remember

Remember the cross...

Romans 12:1-2

we had our kids memorize this verse as it was the theme scripture for our youth group two years back... Today while meeting with the girls, it came up again. And we went through each part and explained what it meant... later in a conversation, so quickly i forgot all of what i had explained to the young ladies.. thought of, "perhaps i've taken the wrong road" or maybe " if i had more money, i'd be more effective' , why does the call have to be so hard" sometimes i just want to settle for the glittery things.. but the end result of this pondering, lead to a life not fulfilling, bc it was passionless. so what's the point. What's the point of the mission work, why are we going around and trying to love.. what's the motivation? then we come back to this verse.. Finally I urge you brothers, in VIEW OF GOD"S MERCY... to present your bodies as living sacrifices. like, that's it.. IN VIW OF GOD"S MERCY, with His sacrifice in mind, remembering the cross... WE give up our lives..

tonight in prayer we sang the song.. " I'll never know, how much it cost,to see my sends up on that cross...here I am to worship" .. but really , really think of it.. WE'll really NEVER know...

the cross we bare is so much less than the cross He took for us..and yet I find my self despising the sacrifice, I'm called to. TO be set apart, and example.. salt and light in the earth... But if we can just remember the cross. I pray that picture be etched in my mind and heart..that I NEVER forget the cross... thoughts of Laziness and mundane can't co-exist with the remembrance of the cross. i can't afford to be lazy.. it cost too much.