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There’s a song I’ve revisited over the years, when I need reminding of the call God has placed on my life. It’s a song written to be used when celebrating Holy Communion. These lyrics continually haunt me:
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Eat this bread, filled with life
Hunger no more
Drink this cup of living water
Never thirst again.
I am the bread, I am the wine
Children taste and see
Here is all of me.
In the person of Jesus of Nazareth, God has consistently, faithfully offered all of God’s self to me.
I know that our spiritual ancestors were unable to be faithful to covenant … and so am I.
What could I possibly offer to God in covenant as a response to God giving all to me?
All of Me
Throughout the years of suffering, failure, painful personal growth, and disappointment, this has been my vow to God: “I am yours, all of me.”
Now, I know I will break covenant and seek restoration. That is the way of humanity. But I know that God longs to enable me to keep this promise.
This promise is basically an all out effort to please God. Which means subverting this promise in any attempt to please someone else leaves me spiritually bankrupt.
This is a promise, a covenant to serve. To serve my only Master, however he chooses me to serve. To serve when I don’t feel like it. To serve when I’m unpopular. To serve though people I trust desert me. To serve in the face of conflict. To serve in the throes of doubt. To serve … and to serve … and to serve.
This promise is a covenant that depends entirely on God.
And I trust him.