{"id":466,"date":"2010-12-12T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T18:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=466"},"modified":"2010-12-12T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T21:53:32","slug":"more-of-you-and-less-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/12\/12\/more-of-you-and-less-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"More of You (and less of me)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of this song, written in 1994 by Bob Kauflin, by a tweet from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/marvinlwilliams\" target=\"_blank\">@marvinlwilliams<\/a>.\u00a0 The text of his tweet was short: &#8220;<em>&#8220;He (Jesus) must increase, but I must decrease.&#8221; Jn 3:30 What area in ur  life do u need 2 b less significant so that he is most significant?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>More Of You<\/strong><\/span> <em>(text and music by Bob Kauflin)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More of You and less of me,<br \/>\nO my Father, I want to be<br \/>\nA spotless vessel so all can see<br \/>\nMore of You and less of me.<\/p>\n<p>What can I offer You<br \/>\nWhen the very best I do<br \/>\nIs marked by the stain of my sin?<br \/>\nMy weakness only proves<br \/>\nThat though I might be used,<br \/>\nYour grace is the power within me.<\/p>\n<p>Though in my heart I&#8217;ve planned<br \/>\nTo follow Your commands,<br \/>\nSin is still waging its war.<br \/>\nBut You have done Your part,<br \/>\nRedeemed my wayward heart,<br \/>\nNow cause it to shine with Your glory.<\/p>\n<p><em>1994 Dayspring Music, LLC\u00a0 \/ Sovereign Grace Praise | Word Music Group, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a constant battle, not one that is waged only once.\u00a0 It is easy  to get lost in the doing, thinking that we&#8217;re accomplishing something,  but are we really?\u00a0 As we do, are we doing so we can be built up, or so  God can be glorified?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of this song, written in 1994 by Bob Kauflin, by a tweet from @marvinlwilliams.\u00a0 The text of his tweet was short: &#8220;&#8220;He (Jesus) must increase, but I must decrease.&#8221; Jn 3:30 What area in ur life do u need 2 b less significant so that he is most significant?&#8221; More Of You&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/12\/12\/more-of-you-and-less-of-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acknowledging-christ"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-7w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}