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Consume Me Consume all that I am...without You, Father. Let the fire of Your Presence consume the chaff of useless, empty weights that ground my spirit, leaving body and mind feeling tired and alone. Consume loneliness that hurt has left behind with fulness of Your exquisite Love for me. Wrap Your Perfect Peace around a wounded heart, insulating it from cold doubt and useless fear. Consume my past, where I've tried to hide, only to find Your Mercy, forgiving every transgression, each failure. Your Grace, indelibly imprinted on tables of my heart, gives me strength, when I'm weakest, in my humanity. Consume my vanity with Your honor and highest dignity, replacing callous pride with integrity...my greatest achievement being obedience to the beauty of Truth, blossoming as a rose with the fragrance of Your Love. Consume my resistance, fueled by my own foolish fear, preserved in me from the past, extinquishing its hold over me by a Fire of far greater purity...the breath of Your lips...breathing Your Ever~Present~Word~ Consume my frustration with the peaceful patience of understanding, giving me a "why" to Your Purpose, a vision of faith, seeing past momentary disappointment, in sufficient strength to perform Your Plan for me today. Consume the thoughts of my mind and desire of my flesh to fulfil sin in selfishness...replacing them with praise, the only gift I trully have to offer You, that is mine alone. All else comes from You first, offered as returned blessing. Consume my fears, forever seal secret sin of past failure, restoring pure faith to etch another chapter of Your Will in hidden chambers of my soul...remember Your Son's final sacrifice as You unfold Yourself within me, revealing Him. Consume my tears, wipe tracks of yesterday's sorrow, replacing it with the breath of Your Peace...whispering scent of hope, raining the cleansing Joy of Salvation, Your arms open, lifting me above existing shadows. Consume every wall of doubt, dissolve final partition between my heart and Yours, dropping the last veil of my confusion, uncovering Your face, as it really is, while my feet are yet planted in this soiled existence. Consume my hesitation with a constant covering of Your established Word, spoken before worlds were swirled into being by Your Will, disclosed suddenly to the servants of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Consume my will, so completely that I am lost in You, seeing what You see, hearing only Your sweet Voice. You alone hold the number of my breaths in the center of Your Conciousness...life charted by design of Grace. Consume my flesh, changing my very life-blood's flow... Charging me with the Energy that spoke, "Let there Be..." as "I am" thunders through my soul, thrilling my senses and spirit in another glory, sweeping all doubts away. Finally, Father, explode the reality of Your Being into every empty recess of my spirit and soul, preparing me to reflect once again the Image of Your Personality, in immortality, no longer marred by sin's deep scars. |
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