"With Pure Intent"
This entry was posted on 9/24/2006 8:10 AM and is filed under uncategorized.
It is my desire to go to heaven. However, in quiet moments when I look inward I realize that His grace will not be sufficient if I do not do what is needed to become clean. Having determined that the ordinance of the sacrament would be critical in cleansing myself I spent several months working on how I could better prepare myself during the week and what I could do to make partaking of the emblems more than habitual. More than something I just do on Sunday mornings without a lot of thought. The following verse is a result of that work.
With Pure Intent
The body that I may be resurrected
The blood that I may be redeemed
The bread that I may remember
The water that I may become clean
Gethsemane's Garden, so much suffering
But the empty tomb, filled with hope
Come, let us remember, let us partake
I know it is just a verse but it has made a real difference in how I approach the ordinance of the sacrament. I share it in the hope that it may help others as well.
