Bible Journey

I thought I would share some scriptures I have read lately that spoke to my heart.

1 Samuel 3:9-10 I pray that I will continually respond with "Speak, for Your servant is listening".

Psalm 139:17-18 Wow! He thinks about me?

Matthew 13:44 Have I sold all I have to buy this treasure?

Mark 4:1-29 I want good soil.

Philippians 1:6 There is still hope for me. I won't give up.

2 Corinthians 2:14-16 This one makes me so happy. I'm smelling good.

Stirred But Not Changed

I have surfed the net for the last hour looking for the lyrics to a song we use to sing long ago in church.  I was able to find one verse and the chorus but not the other verse.  This has been one of those songs that stay with you a while and you are unable to get it out of your head.  It is a Lanny Wolfe song and goes like this:

“Have I heard it for so long that He’s just another song?
Has the story lost its thrill that I once knew?
Lord, give me a burden that’s so strong,
That it will last when my tears are gone.
I’m tired of what I’ve been. Lord, make me over again.

I’m so tired of being stirred about the lost who need to hear.
I’m so tired of being stirred that His coming is so near; 
I’m so tired of being stirred till I cry bitter tears. 
I’m so tired of being stirred but not being changed.”

All too often we sit in our church pews/chairs and get fat on the Word of God.  We take in and take in, yet we are not willing to invite others to eat.  I really feel like God wants us to get up from His table, stop getting fat on the fruit of the land, and help harvest the field.  He wants us to change.  He is looking for people ready to change.  I don't know about you, but I am tired of being stirred and doing nothing about it.  Read  Matthew 9:36-38 Pray that you are sent to harvest the field.  

p.s. Does anyone know the words to the other verse?