heart, head.

And on Sunday night, as I played the uke, and sang the simple, profound truth that You are good, You are faithful, my heart settled.

There was something in the music which reached Your truth into my heart, Lord. Or maybe it was the proclaiming, the speaking Truth out so that my ears could hear. And then, so that my mind and heart could submit, agree and settle.

Yesterday, I was reading John Piper's sharing from Proverbs 3:5-6.

So often quoted to me. But so often, in the last 14 years, lost on me.


What reminders I have needed, to:

• "Make [my] life a moment by moment in trusting in a good, holy, kind, loving, all-providing, all-satisfying God."

• "...say to [my]self: Self, you are inadequate. Brain, you can’t come up with enough wisdom on your own. [I] have to turn away from self-reliance. Of course, that doesn’t mean that [I] don’t think and [I] don’t plan. It just means that [I] don’t bank on it. “The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord” (Proverbs 21:31). So, even in the midst of our planning and thinking and using our minds, we are leaning on something else. We are not leaning on our own resources."

• "So, at every turn, every new choice [I] have to make, every new conversation [I am] in, [I am] sending up a message: God, I acknowledge you here. I know you here. I am drawing you in here. You are decisive here. I need you here."

Source: http://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/three-steps-to-stop-wasting-your-life

Let this be my life's refrain

Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee;
Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in ceaseless praise,
Let them flow in ceaseless praise.


Again and again, I have needed to remember that when I surrender and submit my hopes and plans to my Lord and God, I do so to the One who loves me covenantally. I do so to the One who did not spare His best, who gave of Himself.

That when the LORD God calls me to trust in Him, I am to feel secure in who He is, to take refuge (again and again) in Him.