It has been a long time since I listened to Rich Mullins. We dug it out today because we were studying the Apostolic Creed. He has a song called Creed that quotes the creed. I continued to listen to this great CD. The Lord uses his music to convict my soul. I am listening to "One Thing".
Everybody I know says they need just one thing
And what they really mean is
They need just one thing more
And everybody seems to think
They got it coming
Well I know that I don't deserve You (italics mine)
Still I want to love and serve You
More and more
You're my one thing.
Save me from those things
That might distract me
Please take them away
And purify my heart
I don't want to lose the eternal for
The things that are passing
Cause what will I have
When the world is gone
If it isn't for the love
That goes on and on with
My One Thing.
What is your one thing? Is it Jesus? I want Him to be my One Thing. Many times I don't live like He is. I get caught up in those things that are passing and I stress and I experience anxiety over these things. I worry and fret then I get upset with my babies and time is wasted on those things that are passing.
The last line of the song is my prayer today:
Every night and every day
You hold on tight
Or you drift away
You're left to live
With the choices you make
Oh Lord please give me the strength
To watch and work and love
And sing and pray.
1 comment:
Funny how you can keep running across the same theme in the most unexpected places when God is trying to get ahold of you. I am studying Kelly Minter's "No Other Gods". This song goes right along with it. Your post also brought back memories of Mom in the kitchen baking Christmas goodies with the same old albums (yes, albums) blaring every year, and us all singing to beat the band.
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