Resolved

I will be a radical all of my days for the rest of my life. I will let God take me to whatever extreme He may, taking no regard for myself, but completely trusting Him in all things as capable of supplying, sustaining, and fulfilling me. I am no longer my own, nor is anything on this world mine, but it is all surrendered without restraint to Jehovah to do with as He wills. I am expecting God to make me so that this world and even much of the church sees me as a fool, obsessed with another world, for I am an alien and a stranger here, and I will let God fully make me feel that way, teaching me the meaning of Sojourner. I will not back down in my opposition of sin, flesh, and anything else that would stand in the way of the rule of Jesus Christ in my life, in other's lives, and in the church. Here I lay down all I have and all of me, so that I may always be able to look back and say with Paul,

"Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. for His sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness from God of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith - that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and may share His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection form the dead."

My God, let me ask all this of You and resolve this before You in perfect peace, knowing this is what You have called me to, and that You will fulfill in me Your plans for me. I glory in Your glory, I love You through Your love, I find my joy in Your joy, I seize Your strength instead of mine, and I forfeit my life that the eternal life of Christ will become my life and my entire existence. I live to know nothing but Christ and Him crucified. I trust in Your faithfulness and power, putting myself fully at Your mercy and depending on Your promises, exalting Your blessed word over my life. Take all of me, I am only alive when I am fully Yours. My delight is in You.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever.

Amen.

Brothers and sisters, those I love above all else on this world, hold me to this.

~sojourner