resolute.

Help me God, to be resolute.
Choosing not the easy route.
Fearing not that I might suffer,
To say with David, “I will not offer
burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
So that YOU might be my everything.

...linking up with Emily for Imperfect Prose

...photo courtesy of camuna

the River Trip diaries...

We're posting entries from Micah's journal over on the tuttle tribe site (our ministry blog) this week.
Please continue in prayer for the new and existing works along the river... that they would bear much fruit unto God.

(day one)  (day two) (day three) (day four) (day five)

...costly

How many times do I offer God that which costs me nothing?

the scanty leftovers of my time...

the skimpiest sum I can manage to fumble inconspicuously out of my pocket...

a begrudging, grumbling obedience...

service IF it is convenient, promisingly fruitful, or is particularly of a nature that others might well see...

O God, You don't force us to serve you, much less love You...
But now that we have come to know You, or rather to be known by You, through Your Son... We are no longer under law. How much more then ought our offerings be worth since we are now conscious of grace; grace that's free and yet so very very costly.

HELP US O GOD of our salvation,
for the glory of Your name;
deliver us, atone for our sins,
for your name's sake.
Psalm 79:9

God, it hurts to be exposed.
To realize how seldom I realize how great You are.

How many good things I try to keep to myself...
Forgive me.

You are worthy, for You have given extravagantly...


Give me a heart ready to be poured out before you.
To spend myself lavishly to bring You all the glory.

(post based on 2 Samuel 24:24)
photo courtesy of clix

[posted today at 66books]