Single-minded...

Single minded, whole hearted One thing I ask Single minded, whole hearted One thing I ask That I may gaze upon Your beauty O Lord That I may seek Your holy face That I may know You in an intimate way And follow after You all of my days And follow after You all of my days All of life comes down to just one thing And that's to know You O Jesus And to make You known One Thing by Charlie Hall Charlie Hall is getting a lot of my love recently. Now "One Thing" is the song that's running through my mind. If you haven't heard this song, I encourage you to buy it off of iTunes or the Wal-Mart Music Store or any other music purchasing store of your choice. But it's a hard thing, is it not? To be single-minded. To be whole hearted. There are so many dang distractions in my life. Ones from my friends, ones from my family, and biggest of all, distractions that I put on myself. They all just take away my focus from God and put it on me. No longer is it about Him--it's about me and how my needs can be met. This song has been challenging me to think about where my heart is. Am I focused on, as my school's motto says, to "Know Him and Make Him Known"?? Is my heart's desire truly for Him and to know Him more and more and to become more like Him? To know Him in every area of my life, to focus on Him only? Am I thinking about God when I go down to the exercise room and work out? Am I thinking about God while I am in line for lunch? Am I thinking about God as I complain about my "Personal Skills for College Sucess" class and how useless it is? Am I thinking about God as I clean my room? Now of course we have to think about doing things--otherwise if we only thought about Jesus we'd never move because we couldn't think to move. But at the same time I think that God wants to be there, all the time. Whether I'm actively thinking of Him or not, He wants my heart. He wants it to be His. We're reading through the Old Testament for OT Survey, and we recently finished reading Exodus. There was a verse that I read that really stuck with me, and I'll close with it. Exodus 34:14 "Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." God wants my whole heart. And He wants yours too. Alavidha, Sarah