Getting It Together

"Unite my heart to fear (worship) your name." —Psalm 86:11 

Gather my thoughts, good Lord, they fitfully roam

    Like children bent on foolish wandering, 

Or vanity of fruitless wayfaring 

    O call them home. —Amy Carmichael

An integrated personality is one in which every aspect of one's being is working together to achieve one's goals. In common parlance it's called, "getting it together."  

And what is the goal for which we seek integration? For those who know and love the Lord Jesus, it is to be like him in all that we think and do and say and thus to show his beauty to the world. If we have lost sight of this goal, no matter what we otherwise accomplish in our lifetime, we will have missed the purpose for which we were sent into the world.

And how can we so unite our hearts that we achieve that end? We must ask for it every day. 

Direct, control, suggest, this day,

All I design, or do, or say,

That all my powers, with all their might,

In Thy sole glory may unite. —Thomas Ken, "Awake My Soul"

David Roper

4.17.18