{i want to be a giver of life}

I want to be a life giver not taker. I want to enrich and nurture, not drain and dry. 

I want just a small portion of that piece of Jesus to pour out of me everyday. 

I want to touch things and watch them heal, not break them and watch them whither. 

So today I pray that I am a giver of life.

"If there is still sin to any degree in one who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, then there is tension, yes, contradiction, within the heart of that person.

Indeed, the more sanctified the person is, the more conformed he is to the image of his Saviour, the more he must recoil against every lack of conformity to the holiness of God.

The deeper his apprehension of the Majesty of God, the greater the intensity of his love to God, the more persistent his yearning for the attainment of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, the more cautious will he be of the gravity of the sin which remains and the more poignant will be his detestation of it."

-John Murray (paragraphing John Piper @ Desiring God)