NOT ENOUGH

Thank you Father. I say thank you knowing that thank you is not enough, and will never be enough expression to show my appreciation for the blessed hope you’ve sown in me - a glorious hope. So I GIVE YOU MY HEART in love because you first loved me, and even as I give my heart I know that it too is not enough, and can never be enough, to show my appreciation for the love you so freely, lavishly bestow on me - a passionate all consuming love. So I GIVE YOU MY MONEY, so precious here on earth, to show my appreciation for your tender mercy and grace, knowing once again that it can never be enough - not enough for your superabundant ever abounding grace. So I GIVE YOU MY WORSHIP, the fruit of my lips expressing in frail inadequate terms your glory, your majesty, your honor, but it is not enough for you give back to me your presence, the elixir of my life, and I am once again drowning in your magnificent grace. No, worship is not enough. So I GIVE TO YOU MY SERVICE, righteous works preparing the way for your Kingdom. But you have prepared a place for me, a magnificent place so unfathomable to my senses that I am overwhelmed, awed by your generous heart. No, service is simply not enough. So I give you my most prized possession, I GIVE YOU ME, MY LIFE, everything I am and can ever be I lay at your feet. And it is then that I see the blood, the precious blood of your only Son, I see the crowds mocking Him, I see His body beaten and broken beyond recognition, and I hear my Savior’s last spoken words, a cry of agonizing desperation which stands forever as a testimony to the ultimate price He paid for me: “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me.” And I truly know that even my life is not enough - can never be enough! FOR I AM A PRIZED POSSESSION, A JEWEL, A SON ADOPTED INTO A ROYAL FAMILY. Before the foundations of the world God looked at my heart and said this one (me!) shall be mine, shall be one of my divinely loved ones. And one day soon I shall hear Him say

“COME UP HERE MY BELOVED!”