Is Your All on the Altar?
What kind of question is that when you see I am a missionary in Taiwan “suffering” for Christ? If you can’t tell my All is on the Altar!
This morning God asked me an important question, Jo is your all on the alter? I let Him know yes and why I knew it was. Later on He brought this song to mind. I want to share it and some thoughts I had with you.
You have longed for sweet peace and for faith to increase
-Lord, please give me a longing for Your peace and faith. I guess I must admit a lot of the time I don’t have Your peace or the faith to trust You to increase Your ministry.
And have earnestly, fervently prayed
- may I be sincere and not just half hearted because a Christian must pray, but Father give me a desire to pray, a desire to talk with you.
But you cannot have rest or be perfectly blest
– Father, why not?
Until all on the altar is laid
- What does “all” mean? Does it mean everything, my thoughts, my attitudes, my time, my health, my friendships and my activities?
Is your all on the Altar of sacrifice laid?
–If I am going to be honest with You and myself NO I have not given You my all, my thoughts, the way I think and respond to things, my time, how I feel health wise, my friends, and what I do or don’t do during my day or could I say night as well.
Your heart does the spirit control?
-No, the spirit does not always control my heart. Father, I ask that you would take my heart and direct it to be on Your course.
You can only be blest and have peace and sweet rest
- Father, I long to be blessed and for peace and sweet rest.
As you yield Him your body and soul.
-So I give to you my body and my soul, Amen.
Josephine Papp
Hualien, Taiwan
