Blog Motto For 2012
Around this time of year promises and resolutions are made and mottos are sought out. At our Church every New Year they hand out a little desk calendar with a scripture reference for the year ahead. It’s often reassuring to have a Biblical text on your desk as you move through the year. It’s also amazing how a scripture verse can apply to one thing in your life and when circumstances change it’s going to apply to your life in a different, yet equally powerful, way.
2011 was a very interesting year both for me and southern gospel. Northern Ireland witnessed even more concerts and 2012 could be even better! Throughout 2011 I’ve seen how God works things out. Or maybe it’s a case of me seeing that God already had things worked out for me. When I sat down and thought about 2011, I made the usual conclusions. I need to pray more. Read the Bible more. Be more consistent in my quiet times. Be nicer. Be a better witness. Then I really started thinking. I’m going to simplify this right down and I thought of the song, “I’d Rather Have Jesus”. If I have Jesus, I have everything!
This is my personal motto for 2012 and for this blog. I’ve included the lyrics and a video of Michael English singing it from a TBN special a few years back. I know I’ll get lambasted by the Crabb activists who feel that Jason Crabb has it wrapped up, but I could never warm to his version. I like Jason Crabb as a vocalist, I just prefer Micheal English singing this song. (Plus it’s my blog!) I love his interpretation of it.
It is a hard song to listen to with an honest heart, let alone sing it with an honest heart. In our heart of hearts, who wouldn’t love to be “king of a vast domain”? Our human nature will often cast a wistful eye to what we could have, but ultimately, we are satisfied in Jesus!
So in everything I will do in 2012, I’m going to apply this simple lyric, “I’d Rather have Jesus”. God has promised that, “Them that honour me, I WILL honour”.
Oh and I’m going to blog more often. Hopefully. 
I’d rather have Jesus than silver or gold;
I’d rather be His than have riches untold;
I’d rather have Jesus than houses or lands;
I’d rather be led by His nail-pierced hand
Than to be the king of a vast domain
And be held in sin’s dread sway;
I’d rather have Jesus than anything
This world affords today.
I’d rather have Jesus than men’s applause;
I’d rather be faithful to His dear cause;
I’d rather have Jesus than worldwide fame;
I’d rather be true to His holy name.
