to "my world" 11/22/10

that's what I called you.
in trying to think of some way that I could compliment you without giving you what belonged to God, I came up with this nickname.
you couldn't be "my everything" because He was supposed to be my everything.
you couldn't have my heart because He was supposed to have it.
still, I wanted to give you something, so that was the titled you received.

it worked well in song lyrics: "You hold my world in Your hands."
it made me smile and think of you during worship.
it meant I was lifting you up to Him, right?

it made me feel good, being able to call you that.
it made you feel good, I think, to have that title,
considering I'd promised myself I wasn't going to give you much.

plans backfire, though, don't they?

"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in Him. For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes, and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and it's desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever." - 1 John 2:15-17

"What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul" - Matthew 16:26

what we had was nice...but it wasn't worth my soul. good thing the world allows returns.