I am yours, oh, Lord, yours to mold, to hold, to throw out into the world for your purposes, yours to crush, refine, re-form; yours to stretch and push and shape, yours to "use and abuse," as Brazilians say; yours to possess, to break and make; yours to show forth light, and call attention to your sovereign powers and infiinite glory; yours to throw down and hold up. I am yours, oh, Lord, yours to do with as you please, for your purpose, holy and exalted, and I, but a tool, happy to be a small appendage to your will, a small piece in your mission, inhabit a corner of your immense and wonderful Kingdom. I am yours, oh, Lord, and yours alone, now and forever, becasue Jesus bought me and sought me out in my bewilderment and lostness; for him I give thanks, and praise, and glory. Amen.

http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm

I took the test. I scored 63%, definitely Southern Dixie (I relapsed into my Arkansas dialect.)

I do protest one item, however. The soft drink question did not have the proper response. In Arkansas we call'em sodies.

Great and Sovereign God, your eye is steady toward the goal of the Day of Judgment, when all will appear before you and answer for what we have done in the body, whether good or bad. In this world, the claims to our attention pass in rapid succession. Let my eye not be drawn away from Jesus Christ and him crucified, nor my hand led away from the one purpose of preaching him. Amen.

http://forthright.antville.org/stories/704520

For those of you who aren't subscribers to Forthright Magazine, you may be interested in the article "Considering 'The Passion of the Christ.'" It raises some questions about the film released today.

Heavenly Father, the big talk in the U.S. today is Mel Gibson's film about my Lord's crucifixion. May you show through me what it means to die to self, to die with Christ, to live for him. Amen.

"and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised" (2 Corinthians 5:15).