Morning prayer

Here is a great, short prayer that I have slowly worked through this morning.

It comes from Francis Chan's book, Crazy Love.

Jesus,

I need to give myself up.

I am not strong enough to love You and walk with you on my own. I can't do it, and I need You.

I need You deeply and desperately.

I believe You are worth it, that You are better than anything else I could have in this life or the next.

I want You.

And when I don't, I want to want You.

Be all in me.

Take all of me.

Have Your way with me.

(Free audiobook Crazy Love for the month of July here)

Second Saturday

Good words from Ray Ortlund:

If we would stop treating Sunday as a second Saturday, one more day to run to Home Depot, one more day for the kids' soccer games, if we would rediscover Sunday as The Lord's Day, focusing on him for one day each week, what would be the immediate impact between today and one year from today?

By one year from today, we will have spent 52 whole days given over to Jesus. Seven and a half weeks of paid vacation with Jesus.

He's a good King. Maybe we should put him first in our weekly schedules.