Maybe there will be a worship meeting years from now when that song will be sung, and you will be instantly transported to the Sharp Center in your mind.
Take my life and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to thee.
But I hope (and have been praying since before CMI started) that you will internalize the things we learned together and that you will live them.
Will you be different because you went to CMI 2010? And I'm not talking about musical ability. My desire as chaplain, perhaps the best real test of whether I was truly consecrated as a chaplain, is that you in turn would hand your lives over to God day by day and make a difference in your corner of the Kingdom.
Now many of you are back to school and work, and life has returned to a familiar pattern of daily and weekly events.
Remember, you are the only one who goes where you go and has the gifts and talents you have. You might be the only person on the earth who has the same friends, family, schoolmates and fellow employees that you have.
Maybe your new assignment will be to take 20 quiet minutes, sit down with a piece of paper and list out some things that you know need to change in your new, consecrated life. Make a list of things you need to let go of, and another list of things that you need to pursue.
This might be a life-transforming moment for you - perhaps the first time you are writing spiritual goals for your life.
If you need some scripture to inspire you, go to Psalm 146 (Commissioner Carol Seiler preached from this on Sunday morning), Colossians 3:1-17, Romans 12 or Psalm 1. If you find other scripture passages that are helpful, please let me know.
Anyway, allow God to speak to you and to lead you not only to set reasonable goals, but also to start living them out. Today.
Thanks for being there at CMI and for allowing me to relay a little of God's wisdom into your lives. Hope to see you next year, and I hope to hear great consecration and victory reports in the meantime.
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