I want the treasure of a life centered around You, revolving around You, brimming with You, telling of You, glorifying You, yearning for more of You.
May the journey of my life leave a glimpse of Your glory with words as beautiful as those scripted in John 17:4:
I don't want what is most comfortable, what pleases me the most, what is my way. I do not want to squeeze my wrinkled eyes shut one day to find a heart beat that has settled into beating in tune with the world, desperately wishing I would have taken more risks for you. I do not want to gaze deep into the majesty of the heavens with a sinking pit of regret for not allowing You to mold me into a new creation in You.
Tear me away from the grip I have on the easy route.
Plant me upon Your rock to see that no matter where You are leading me, You will provide. The waters drawing me near frighten me and I want to resort to the old ways. Not because they are dangerous in themselves but because they radically crash upon my heart and are pushing me to do something about the injustice I see all around me.
You are enough to instill a spirit of tremendous courage that knocks out the shouts of the world to find peace in the gravity of a mere whisper from You (2 Timothy 1:7, Isaiah 30:21)
I am not merely an 18 year drifting along with the current.
I am a daughter of the most High King with dreams yet to be unveiled for my generation that will accomplish my purpose for Your glory.
Silence the world so that I might find the path marked out for me and enter wholeheartedly into a story that exceeds the dreams I so carefully plot out.
Show me the next step of this journey, I wait expectantly for Your leading.
"Now to him who is able to do abundantly more than all we could ask or think according to his power at work within us." [Ephesians 3:20]
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it." [John 14:12-14]
There will come a day when the curtain of my life will fall and those endless chances and open doors will be sealed. I want the legacy I leave to shine for the glory of Your name. Ecclesiastes 7:2 says, “…for death is the destiny of every man, the living should take this to heart.” Teach me God to live my days taking my numbered days and turning them into opportunities to shine who You are and what You have come to do.
May the journey of my life leave a glimpse of Your glory with words as beautiful as those scripted in John 17:4:
"I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do."
"I want to leave an offering
A child of mercy and grace who blessed your name
unapologetically
And leave that kind of legacy...
Not well traveled, not well read,
not well-to-do or well bred
Just want to hear instead,
"Well Done" good and faithful one..."
-"Legacy" by Nichole Nordeman
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