Radically Happy

Today I will risk it all
For Love

A woman came to Him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, which she poured on His head as He reclined at the table.

Matthew 26:7

What is the thing that I fear
That keeps me from letting You near?
What is the price I might pay
If I let You have Your way?

Failure and death are my friends
Yet what my heart most offends
Is ending up covered with shame
In losing it all for Your name

Not that I think You unkind
But I cannot trust my own mind
And what I call obedience
Might be a path to mischance

For limits to my perception
Leave space for rich self-deception
Things I think make Kingdom come
Often turn out to be dumb

Yet maybe that’s too small a price
To keep me from following Christ
A foolishness extravagant
Might be the thing that He meant

For winning and losing are lies
Compared to the joy in His eyes
At seeing me stumbling half-stepped
Chasing a faith that is leapt

Ain’t this precisely the date
Christ’s looking for from His mate?
Risking it all for the chance
Of gaining His divine romance

But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus–the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

Acts 20:24