These are lyrics to a song that my husband, Bobby and his friend Ty wrote not too long ago. (Please click [1] here to go to Godsong Music to listen to the song!) Today Ty had the opportunity to sing this song for our Compass family and I was so encouraged by it.

This song is convicting because it’s so easy to go through life just doing what people do without having right motives.  Even as Christians we can be trying to have love or faith, but if the Lord doesn’t have all of our heart, it doesn’t amount to anything. Most people probably think this is extreme or too intense, but 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 is pretty clear, that God wants us to love Him with all of our hearts and for everything we do to flow from that abundance.

The message of this song definitely came home as Bobby preached this weekend (Please click [2] here to listen to this sermon) he referred to 1 Corinthians 15:58–

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

God isn’t pleased with half our hearts or half a job. He wants us to always give ourselves fully to Him. I think we kind of trick ourselves into thinking that God understands that we are so busy or that it would be just too hard to give our all to Him. But we can’t excuse away what God requires of us.

All week I was getting us organized from Revival Camp the week before. I think my laundry count is at 13 loads (I have an apartment sized washer and dryer). Today I realized that God even wants me to fold that laundry with my heart all His. I used to think I had to be reading my Bible, in prayer or in church to really be giving God what He wants, so things like laundry, being stuck in traffic, grocery shopping and errands definitely seemed like trivial me-focused times. But what He is really looking for is not the formal fulfilling of duties for Him, but rather a constant God-ward focus in all I do, even folding 13 loads of laundry.

My prayer is that you will go listen to this song, at least once, and have a heart check to ask yourself if God really has all of it all the time…