My Heart Will Sing No Other Name

"Oh, I'm running to Your arms, I'm running to Your arms, the riches of Your love, will always be enough. Nothing compares to Your embrace. Light of the world, forever reign"
We sang that song at church on Sunday and it concludes with the words "My heart will sing, no other name, Jesus, Jesus."

When it got to that part, it started making me think. What other names does my heart sing? Does it sing money? Friends? Acceptance? Appreciation? Steve?

It seems as we raise support, so much of the focus in on money. Now, both Steve and I have never been "money" people. What I mean by that is that neither of us care about how much money we make, or ever being rich. Because of that, it's new to us to have to focus on how much money comes our way for Africa. It's weird because all of a sudden we have a glimpse of what it means to be a "lover of money."

I don't mean to say this in a bad way - we have learned so much about God's character and His power throughout our support raising, but it's been difficult finding a balance. When we rejoice, we've needed to learn to rejoice in God's provision (not just that we see our support go up another 1-2%). When we get anxious, we need to learn to give it to Him and know that He has our future in his hands and that this is HIS ministry and HIS timing, not ours and not go back to trying to raise support with OUR strength, but HIS.
My heart will sing NO other name, Jesus, Jesus.

Remember that as our hearts are deceitful, they wander far away from singing the name of Jesus. I just want to pray that as Christian, we can all focus on singing that one name day in and day out, in the good times and in the frustrating times!