Lord, you are...more costly than gold

I started this morning with a song in my head:
Lord, you are more precious than silver
Lord, you are more costly than gold
Lord, you are more beautiful than diamonds
And nothing I desire compares to you

There is a lot of talk in today's text about how the cost of discipleship is better than making lots of money. That's counter-intuitive, but investing your life in something that matters is more valuable than having lots of stuff.

The verse I like is "I am both Insight and the Virtue to live it out." I just found out today that we need to raise all the money we can by Sunday, so that we can package all the Feeding Children International meals we can during the Famine. Our shipment of supplies will go out on Monday and be here prior to the event. We'll probably just have the one cell to package with, but we'll crank out all the meals we can and see how it feels. Then future fundraising and strategy will decide if we do this as an ongoing ministry. 26 of us are fasting so far. Two youth have decided to sacrificially give $360 EACH of their OWN money. Together they will feed 19 kids for an entire year. Wow! Sue, there's 19 again.