I've noticed lately that a lot of conversations with my classmates have began with, "So, I decided..."
...and continue with such phrases as...
"...to just go ahead and try this..."
"...to wait and see..."
"...to stop allowing myself to be stressed..."
"...to stop caring what others think..."
And while there's nothing inherently wrong with any of those phrases, I always end up disappointed. Why? Because all of these phrases are centered around ME. "I this, I that". Truly nothing in my life is any longer about me.
Even my salvation is totally and completely of God, totally through Christ's finished work at the Cross, and not at all of myself. So rather than keeping all of these conversations so "me-centered", they need to be Christ-centered.
I have to give up this sense of self-sufficiency that somehow I'll make it work, when I won't. I'll never be good enough...and that's the point!
And so, I was thinking of this song that transfers the thought that "I'm doing" into actively following the One Who is doing, has done, and will do.
"I have decided to follow Jesus... no turning back...though none go with me, still I will follow...no turning back...the world behind me, the Cross before me...no turning back."
He Who has begun a good work in you WILL COMPLETE IT! Not of us, all of Him.
Posterous theme by Cory Watilo