"One Thing Have I Desired Of The Lord"
Psalm 27:4
Like David, let us set
our hearts upon "One Thing", and seek that to the exclusion of all
other things, and let the "One Thing" we seek be the Lord Jesus
Christ himself. "Grant me Thyself, O Lord, and I will ask no more."
If I understand the aim
and purpose of the gospel I preach it is just this: It is to cause all the
capacities, powers, talents, ambitions, and affections of our hearts to be
concentrated upon one object and to beat with one pulse for that object. And
that one object upon which our hearts must be fixed is the Son of God, our
blessed Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, that God
would make us a people with one, solitary object possessing our beings, a
people whose hearts burn with desire for nothing but Christ! This is my prayer,
"Lord, compel me, by whatever means necessary, by
the irresistible power and grace of your Spirit, to set my heart upon Christ
alone."
I know this: You and I
must choose what we will seek and what we will serve. It will either be Christ
and the cause of his glory in this world, or it will be the world and the lusts
of our own flesh. We cannot serve both. And we cannot have both. "Ye
cannot serve God and mammon" (Matt.
Don Fortner