set apart

 ¹⁷ So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. ¹⁸ They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. ¹⁹ Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.
 ²⁰ That, however, is not the way of life you learned ²¹ when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. ²² You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; ²³ to be made new in the attitude of your minds; ²⁴ and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Eph 4:17-24

Refiner's fire
my heart's one desire
is to be holy
set apart for you Lord
i choose to be, holy
set apart for you, my Master
ready to do Your will

happy new year!

some things never change. His love is good. His love is perfect. His love is strong. He is altogether lovely, and i've only scraped the surface.
here's to 2012, and to a journey of seeing Him better, only so i can't help but keep my eyes stuck on His Magnificence.

¹¹ One thing God has spoken, 
   two things I have heard: 
“Power belongs to you, God, 
 ¹² and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”