How Far Will You Let Me Go?

This morning I was listening to a song by Misty Edwards called, Always on His Mind. Some of the lyrics are: "With my whole heart I'll love You, With my mind and my strength too, Waste my life searching for You..." My favorite part of the song is, "How far will You let me go? How abandoned will You let me be?" I want this attitude to be in me, I want to live my life to discover how far into knowing God He will allow me to go and how fully abandoned to Him He will let me be.

So often the Christians of our times are asking, "How close to sin will You let me go? How much like the world will You let me be?" What a waste of our lives! I want to guard against this (often) subtle attitude in myself and encourage everyone to do the same.

I once heard a prophesy that I haven't been able to get off my mind since: that God wants to make the Christians of our day like the woman in Matthew 26:7-13. This woman took an alabaster vial of perfume (worth about a year's wages) and anointed Jesus with it. She was criticized by those who saw her for wasting her resources.

I want to see the whole church worldwide gain a reputation for giving their lives sacrificially like this woman. I want to live so wholly in love with Jesus that people would say of me, "Look how she's wasting her life on God." Let's pray this week as we're fasting and going through The Treasure Principle that we would begin to gain a vision for eternity that would leave us asking God, "How far will You let me go? How abandoned will You let me be?"