Who I want to be...

I have decided who I want to be when I grow up.  I want to serve Jesus with all of my being all of my life. I want to give all of myself away.

Sitting yesterday and the rest of this week with men and women who are considered, "pillars of the faith," it inspirational. There is so much more to do. More to be. More to come.  I just need to be pushing in toward my Jesus until the very moment that I am taken home once and for all.

John Perkins at 78 years old travels weekly speaking across the country. He considers it a "good trip" when he has gotten people into a room who will become a catalyst for change.  One of his "volunteer" that lives at the Perkins' Center is in his early eighties.  Ten years ago he "retired" and came here to take up the work of Christ in Mississippi.  He dreams and has visions for the eradication of poverty once and for all.  Billy Graham still takes the stage. Bill Bright the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ was dictating a book as he lay in his bed dying of cancer.  These are those that I have met or that I can think of off the top of my head that are living it out to the fullest all the days of their lives.  This is what I want to be.

"You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay. But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved." Hebrews 10: 36-39

I don't want to be one who shrinks back. I want to press in forward taking back land and gaining new territory for Jesus. I want to be riding into battle on His horse as he drives the way and I simply am allowed to be part of the battle.  I don't want to fade out. I am not of those who shrink back.