I viewed this video a few weeks ago.It impacted me on many levels. The song and music are very soothing to my soul. It is my hearts cry at a level I am not completely aware of except to say that I am...if that makes sense.
The music as a backdrop to a tribute to Ruth Bell Graham is moving in and of itself. She was married for 60+ years to the worlds best known evangelist, Billy Graham. While he ministered around the world,she raised their children and was his helpmate. She wrote books and had her own ministry all the while being Billy Graham's wife.
Above and beyond that, her highest calling was in response to her Savior.He was her all in all as evidenced by her life, her families heartfelt recollections, her own writings and her life as she lived it.
As I watched this I was captivated by the love expressed for her by her husband and children.Simply, they knew their mother loved God and His Son Jesus. A lifetime spent observing her had convinced them of this. Billy spoke of the "reception" he imagined her arriving to in Heaven as she went Home.His broken heart rejoiced in this fact.
Beyond all the words of the family is the anthem of the song.."Give Me Jesus"...
As a wife and mother I can only imagine how often in her life, this was her hearts cry. During all the days and nights when her husband was not beside her...When loneliness or frustration might have been a close friend...While she brought the truth of Gods Word to her world , as her husband did to the world at large... "Give Me Jesus" ...three simple words that transformed her life and countless others because of her.
My hearts desire is to want Jesus more than anything or anyone else...and to be content in the places He's placed me. My life has not been one like Ruth Bell Graham's. I feel so unworthy even discussing her life and mine in the same sentence.EXCEPT for Jesus. He is the common thread in our existence.He died to redeem both of us.He gave us husbands and children to love and nurture.He had a plan for our lives.
She inspires me. She encourages me. She was a Godly woman, whom I pray I am becoming. She asked for Jesus in every corner of her life.It appears as if He was there with her by the evidence of her life.
"You can have all this world.... but give me Jesus."
Join me in experiencing this tribute to a Godly woman. The Bible says in Titus 2: 3-5 "..the older women likewise, that they may be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine,teachers of good things - that they may admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers,good ,obedient to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed."
As we see her life, her writings, her legacy we see this Word alive in its directive. Thank you Ruth Graham, for your example and inspiration. I,for one, am touched and moved to see life differently through adopting this cry..."give me Jesus".
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