All His. No Right to Myself

1 Corinthians 6:20: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

On January 12, 1723, I made a solemn dedication of myself to God, and wrote it down; giving up myself, and all that I had to God; to be for the future, in no respect, my own; to act as one that had no right to himself, in any respect. And solemnly vowed, to take God for my whole portion and felicity; looking on nothing else, as any part of my happiness, nor acting as if it were; and his law for the constant rule of my obedience: engaging to fight, with all my might, against the world, the flesh, and the devil, to the end of my life.

But I have reason to be infinitely humbled, when I consider, how much I have failed, of answering my obilgation.

- You probably did not realize that I was that old, huh? Now, that you read through that once, I would encourage you to read through it again a little bit slower, taking a minute to think about what is really being said.

Jonathan Edwards was regretful that it took him so long to come to his recognition of this type of spiritual commitment to God. I mean it wasn't until he was 19 years old that he wrote that down.
Just a thought

Foward a Year Ago

Happy 2008, everyone!!

Usually, at this time of the year, people are always looking forward to resolutions they want to make to improve this year. I hope that we all have a desire to improve in our lives - primarily in regards to our spiritual lives, in our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Our goals should have us pressing forward this year to being more conformed to the image of Christ than we are right now. A good idea would be to set some tangible goals - such as: I want to read through the whole Bible this year; I want to increase my prayer time from however long it is now, to some greater amount; I want to pass out a certain number of tracts in a week, more than I do now; etc.

Well, those are good goals, and we need to set them. But, today's post is for this purpose... January 2nd, 2007... 365 days ago... where were you? How were you doing spiritually then? Were you reading less than you are now? Were you praying less than you are now? Were you passing out fewer tracts than you are now??? If not... was the year a failure? - depressing thought -

I hope that we can all be encouraged to press forward this year, and to be forward a year ago. Exhort one another daily.

Just a thought...