To you I give my life, not just the parts I want to
To you I sacrifice these dreams that I hold on to
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father
and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters
—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple. And anyone
who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. " Luke 14:25-27
Your thoughts are higher than mine
Your words are deeper than mine
Your love is stronger than mine
This is no sacrifice
Here's my life
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.
As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9
To you I give the gifts
Your love has given me
How can I hoard the treasures
that you've designed for free?
"It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets,
some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to
prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ
may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge
of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." Ephesians 4:11-13
To you I give my future
As long as it may last
To you I give my present
To you I give my past
"But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead." Philippians 3:7-11
(The lyrics are from a song called No Sacrifice by Jason Upton)
Sunday, August 26, 2007
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