You Can, So I Will...

Father God - I give myself completely. I will pray with fervency, seek you wholeheartedly, love with your love, have a broken heart for the hurting, rejoice in all that makes you smile, flee from all that entangles, and turn from all that distracts - EXCEPT....

I cannot raise my voice to You but by your grace. I haven't the will to pursue You nor the love to give others. I cannot notice the hurting but for Your revelation, or know Your joy but from Your direction. What entangles is my own desire to be good, and what distracts is my means to meet my needs and obligations. I cannot so much as climb the mountain to place my life on Your altar, much less make my life a worthy sacrifice for Your worship.

Holy Father, all I can do is receive from You. You have made me a vessel for You to fill with Yourself. Fill me to overflowing so I might know You, and share Your Life. Give me grace to pray and seek, to love and mourn, to celebrate authentically with You, and seek life only in You. Do all You call me to.

I am willing, but You alone are able. I cannot, but You can. So speak through me, love through me, help through me, rejoice through me, lead me from within and draw me into You who are within me...

...That You would bring glory to Your Name, that You would increase Your fame, that You would expand Your renown by Your ridiculous grace.