Look full in His wonderful face
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace
- "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus" (Lilias Trotter)
I read this on a poster in high school once:
Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.
This week has been a bit looney for me; good, but looney. This week I came to the knowledge that every one of the "men" in my past is happily (?) with someone else, AND all of my best girlfriends (with the exception of one) are sitting happy with their man. I mean, I know that I don't date, but it is the winter and I get S.A.D. every winter since I'd moved to the Midwest. It hasn't been as bad this year though.
Then this morning I was having breakfast and we were talking about a friend who is dating someone that she really shouldn't be. I hadn't gotten so S.A.D. that I would just give up all the way in order to fulfill my need to "be with someone," but at the same time, who am I to talk to her about being satisfied in Christ when the observation that I made about my friends and the past "men" in my life?
Bottom line is this: not only do I have to know, but I have to REMEMBER that I have Christ. I don't have to not only know that I have Him, I have to WANT Him. It's so hard to choose Christ and the ONE best that He wants for me, when I live in a world that belongs to the devil who offers me the TEN good-enoughs to conterfeit God's best.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" - Jim Elliot
Psalm 27:8
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
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