If I traded it all.

What are you willing to give up that would cost you the most so that you could have infinite happiness? What are you willing to let go of that will cost you the most so that love would be infinitely given to you? We search the earth and the contents thereof for fulfillment yet nothing seems to fill us to the point where we can say we're complete. We think we know ourselves, but if we know ourselves why do we still search to know something more about ourselves? God knows our hearts and the void that has been put their by him for us to search for him...now i ask once again what are you willing to give up after the search is all said and done and you've come to your answer...are you willing to let go of all those credoes you once lived by? Are you willing to trade it all...

The parable of the rich man... Matthew 19: 16-30
16 Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?"
17"Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments."
18"Which ones?" the man inquired.
Jesus replied, " 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,
19honor your father and mother,'and 'love your neighbor as yourself."
20"All these I have kept," the young man said. "What do I still lack?"
21Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
22When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23Then Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
25When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, "Who then can be saved?"
26Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
27Peter answered him, "We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?"
28Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. 30But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

.....this is trading it all....giving up yourself and all that you could become just to be sufficient by God's grace and everlasting mercy.

my heart was made to worship you Lord, my mind was formed to think in your likeness and show others the way through the words that proceed out of my mouth. but now i must give up something that i hold closer to me more than anything to be with out and to be truly and freely happy. This is trading it all...take it...my heart. take it. my mind. take it. my will for life. take it. my drive for living. take it. all things that are not for me. take it.

im trading it all.

BRIII