Rizpah: August 2008

Monday 25 August 2008

You are My Deepest Desire

My Beautiful Lord and Sweet Redeemer,
I trust You with my life,
I trust You with my love,
I trust You with everyone I hold dear.
You have prooved a hundred times over that You are worthy of my trust.

I follow You, Lord, even when You ask me to leave,
to leave everything known and dear to me,
even my sister which I love more than anything in this world.
Lord, You are my deepest love, my deepest desire.
You are not at all my only desire, but You are my deepest desire.
And in this Desire, to know You, to love You, more than anything else,
I let all these other desires go.

I trust You to keep me Lord,
I trust You to be my every joy,
to heal my every pain.
And I am confident that You will.
simply because You've said so.
And You've prooved a hundred times worthy of my trust.

Your Plan is Greater than mine,
I see only the mist, but You see it all in bright daylight.
So I trust You to look for me, and tell me which way I should go
At Your feet I will rest.
Towards Your cross I will walk.

Beautiful Jesus, I will look at You only.

Friday 22 August 2008

I found out that there was more to live for than I ever dreamed of

“In Him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28).
This means, simply, God is our home” *

~so what am I to say but, home sweet home? Beautiful Jesus.

I'm going home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gakF1C62u0w

*Quote taken from Amy Carmichael, Edges of His Ways

About this blog

I have over a long time felt a desire to write a blog that focused totally on The Lord, and the last months God have done so much good work in and through my life and I want to share it, so that He might be glorified through it.

I pray that as I write down my walk with God, others will be blessed and encouraged to seek more of Him and to walk a closer walk with Him. It is so worth it, and nothing you have done (or do right now) is too much for Him to forgive. Even if other Christians condemn you, God will not. Turn away from your sins and back to Him. He is able to free you. Read His word, pray for His guidance, listen to His will. Even if you don't know how to do so, He will guide you.

It is just a few days since I gave my life to Him, even if I have called myself a Christian for many years. I don't live for myself anymore but for Him and His glory. And He changes me.

I want to live for Him, no matter the cost.
I want to trust Him in all things.
I know that He have saved me and that in Him I am no longer a slave under sin, but I free to live a new life in Him.

May I sing with David, the King after God's own heart:

No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.
My body rests in safety.
For you will not leave my soul among the dead
or allow your holy one to rot in the grave.
You will show me the way of life,
granting me the joy of your presence
and the pleasures of
living with you forever.

Psalm 16: 9-11 (NLT)

Peace be with you!
Your sister in Christ,
Rizpah

My Favourite Quotes about My Lord Jesus Christ

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
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Jim Elliot
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"It is only in obeying God that we may know Him. Obedience, if it is a good reason for dying, is just as good a reason for living. I knew that there was no other answer for me."
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Elisabet Elliot, The Savage My Kinsman
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"When a soul sets up to find God, it does not know whether it will come, or by what path it will be led. But those who catch the vision are ready to follow the Lamb where ever He goes. And it is as they follow, obedient to what they have seen, in the spirit of joyful adventure, that their path becomes clear before them, and they are given the power to fulfill their high calling. They are those who have the courage to break through conventionalities, who care not at all what the world thinks of them. Because they are entirely taken up with the tremendous realities with the soul and God."
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Amy Carmichael, Gold Cord

Rizpah