Daughters of Promise November/December 2014 | Page 14

ONE THING

(Sabbath Song, July 12, 2014)

(“One thing thou lackest, if thou wilt be perfect.”) Mt 19:21
One thing you’ve asked me: take up my cross,
Lu 9:23
Hate earthly riches, count it all loss,
Lu 14:26; Lu 16:13; Php 3:8
To give up and follow you.
Lu 18:22
This, my LORD, I gladly do,
Mt 13:44
For beholding me, you’ve loved me with great love. Mr 10:21
One thing is needful, that will I choose.
One thing is needful, all else I’ll lose.
Sitting at Thy lovely feet,
Hearing your voice still repeat:
“I have loved you with an everlasting love.”
One thing I have desired: to sing your praise,
Declare your glory all of my days,
To behold thy beauty, Lord,
And inquire of thy word
My heart said unto thee, “Thy face will I seek.”

Lu 10:42
Joh 12:25
Lu 10:39, Isa 52:7
Isa 44:8; Isa 45:21
Jer 31:3
2Ch 29:30; Ps 7:17; Ps 9:2
1Ch 16:24; Ps 104:33
Ps 27:4; Isa 33:17
Ps 119
Ps 27:8

Not one thing ever failed of all you’ve said.
You’ve given new life raised from the dead.
All I want is more of you:
Doing all you ask me to,
Loving you with heart and soul and mind
and strength.

Jos 23:14
Ro 6:4; Ro 8:11; Col 2:12

Though I have not attained, one thing I do:
Leave what’s behind me, reach for what’s new.
Soon you’re coming in the skies,
So I press on for the prize:
The high calling in Christ Jesus, O my God.
(I would be perfect.)

Php 3:12
Php 3:13
Ac 1:11; Re 1:7
1Co 9:24
Php 3:14
De 18:13; Ps 101:2

Lu 17:10
Mr 12:30

MEET THE AUTHOR
Growing up, I had one primary desire in life: to be a wife and mother. Even
deeper than that, though, my heart longed to live out God’s purpose for my life,
whatever the cost. After I married the man of my dreams, he voiced fundamental
spiritual questions, and I thought God hadn’t been faithful to give me the desires
of my heart. Disappointed, I placed my happiness in having a good marriage
and pursued higher education and a professional career with its resulting money
and prestige. Seven years later, God sent a crisis my way, and, with it, a second
chance at processing through whether or not I would believe his goodness and
word. After trying every tactic I knew of resistance and control to change my
circumstances (and failing), I chose absolute surrender to God instead of suicide.
Since then, my life has been a journey of growing in love, grace, and joy. For
seven years, I was blessed with the ministry of homeschooling my two sons and
teaching music at my church school in Gladys, Virginia. I am currently an adjunct
instructor for Liberty University Online.

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