giving Everything

Sometimes thoughts link together in my mind with invisible webs of association. These thoughts are threaded strongly. However, I can't tell if they would make sense to anyone outside of myself! If this is the case, then please accept them all separately.


"For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."
[2 Timothy 1:12 KJV or in YLT]:

"For which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day."

"Take my love, my God I pour
At Thy feet its treasure store."
-Francis Ridely Havergal
"Part of the sacrifice is the not knowing. But truly what He gives in return will be greater than anything we give up. What is the "Isaac" of your heart-that gift or dream from God that you treasure most? ... Are you willing to lay your "Isaac" on the altar to see it come back to life, bigger and better than you ever dreamed possible?"
Julie Ferwerda in One Million Arrows


"The Lord told King David to set up an altar on the threshing floor that belonged to Araunah the Jebusite. When the king asked Araunah if he might buy it, Araunuah begged him to take it, as a gift, along with his oxen for an offering and the threshing sledges for fuel. "No," said the king. "...I will not offer to the Lord my God whole-offerings that have cost me nothing..." Lord, I said, here's my heart."

Elisabeth Elliot in Passion and Purity

"Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself."
Elisabeth Elliot (again) in Let Me Be A Woman


"Practicing The Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, but an investment." -Unknown