ICCM Day 3

Today started with great fellowship at Breakfast and continued with great praise and worship through song. It was a great mix of some older songs, Come Thou Fount and ones I had not heard before like One Pure and Holy Passion. It was a great time of getting to worship my Lord and also have some truely emoutional moments. For some reason this morning the power behind the words truely touched my heart. The line from Come Thou Fount that really hit me was as follows:

Oh to grace how great a debtor

Daily i'm constraint to be!

It just hit me how much I need Jesus and how far from him I get at times. It all came to fruition with the last song, One Pure and Holy Passion. Dorinda from Lightsys shared that her passion is to help reach others with the gospel and the first 2 linea of the verse at first seemed to enforce that:

Give me one pure and holy passion

Give me one magnificent obsession

But when you complete the verse and go into the chorus it really hits home what our pure and hold passion should be:

To know and follow hard after you

To grow as your dicsiple in your truth

This world is empty, pale, and poor

Compared to knowing you, my Lord

Lead me on and I will run after you

Lead me on and I will run after you

It really hit me hard. Even in my persuit to seek God at times I try to 'help' him with how I think I can best help him. I firmly believe, especially after this conference, that I am called to missions and so is my family. In my struggles to know the what, when and where I have tried to 'help' God figure it out. But as the chorus says To know and follow hard after you, to grow as a disciple in your truth and finally Lead me on and I will run after you. I must completely surrender first of all where I am. I may be unhappy at times but I must surrender it to him. I must also surrender where I may be in the future. God knows where he wants me and where I will be and what I will do. I do not know and the beauty is I do not need to know. All I need to be is ready to 'run after Him' when he 'Leads me on...".

As I close I will quote the last verse of Come Thou Fount as it says it well:

Oh to grace how great a debtor

Daily i'm constraint to be!

Let Thy goodness like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee.

Prone to wander Lord i feel it

Prone to leave the God I love.

Here's my heart

Oh take and seal it.

Seal it for thy courts above.

Praise God!