This is the last post on this blog for perhaps quite a while. I’d like to close up the blog with a song I wrote based on Paul’s word in Philippians chapter 3: “One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

That should be our goal, always. One thing. One thing only.

I welcome you to download the melody and simple chording here. May God guide, strengthen, and bless you daily!

 

One Thing I Do

by Paula Marolewski

 

Verse 1:

Lord, I come to you, with my past and with my pain –

With all the guilt I feel inside, all my failures, all my shame.

And I lay down all of this darkness, all the hurts and all the sin,

I give them up, set them all aside, and pledge to you again …

 

Chorus:

That one thing I do – forgetting what lies behind.

Just one thing I do – pressing onward all the time

Yes, one thing I do – reaching upward for the prize:

For the prize of the call in Jesus Christ –

For the prize of the call in Jesus Christ.

 

Verse 2:

And Lord, I come to you, with the victories I’ve won –

All the best I am and have ever been, all the works for you I’ve done.

These, too, I lay aside lest they stop me on the way –

Lest they weigh me down or turn my eyes from serving you this day …

 

Chorus:

So one thing I do – forgetting what lies behind.

Just one thing I do – pressing onward all the time

Yes, one thing I do – reaching upward for the prize:

For the prize of the call in Jesus Christ –

For the prize of the call in Jesus Christ.

 

Bridge:

There’s nothing in life that’s too great a cost,

Nothing that I won’t give up for lost.

No sacrifice that I will not give

That in you I might live!

 

All of my dreams, every hope I have planned –

I put them all in your loving hand.

May each step that I take be right there with you

And the song that I sing be “One thing I do!” …

 

Chorus:

Oh, one thing I do – forgetting what lies behind.

Just one thing I do – pressing onward all the time

Yes, one thing I do – reaching upward for the prize:

For the prize of the call in Jesus Christ –

For the prize of the call

For the prize of the call

For the prize of the call in Jesus Christ!

 

Copyright 2008 Paula Marolewski, all rights reserved.

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