I
love You for the selfless love You demonstrated at Calvary, love that
challenges me to love likewise. I love You for the call to “follow Me”, a
command of submission into Your Lordship. I love You for the honor of being a
co-worker in Your Kingdom, sharing in Your suffering as you produce Your life
in me. I love You for allowing me to partake of You... for Your indwelling
Spirit who teaches... guides... comforts... and manifests Your life in and
through me. I love You for Your patient endurance... for I am so slow to learn
and so easily side-tracked by lover’s less wild. I love You for calling me Your
friend, though I dare not presume the same... Sir! I love You because You are
for me... on my side... in my corner... fighting my battles... for me. I love
You for first loving me, planting the seed of Your agape love which grows in me
as I behold it. I love You for loving me too much to leave me the way I am,
allowing satan’s threshings so You can winnow away the chaff, bringing forth the
kernel of Your life in me... bringing forth good out of intended evil... teaching
me that real love sometimes hurts... that transforming pain brings eternal
glory... teaching me to bow down and kiss the Son. I love You for the blessed
hope I have in You, that You have prepared a special place for me, beyond the
capacity of my imagination to visualize or the power of man to put into words,
that You will come again and take me to Yourself, that where You are, there I
may be also. I love You for the intimate
moments we share, for the privilege of sitting at Your nail-scarred feet...
listening... looking into Your face... adoring You. May I never regard this
privilege casually... may I never neglect it... may I always come humbly... and
come often. There really is only one thing truly necessary in life... May I be
a person of that one thing... Always!!!
ALL
THAT YOU ARE... TO ME
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