On my social media accounts I have been posting short prayers in the mornings. Last week, I used verses of the hymn “Take My Life and Let it Be” as my daily prayers. Do you know this beautiful hymn written by Frances Ridley Havergal in 1874?
As we sing and pray through each verse, we are asking the Lord to accept our bodies, lives—everything as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to [Him], which is [our] spiritual worship (Romans 12:1).
In Leviticus 11:44 we read: For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
This hymn is a prayer that God would set us apart from the world, which He does when we come to saving knowledge of Him. It is also a prayer that as we are being sanctified (made into His image) that we would be more and more set apart for Him.
In the margin of my Bible beside this verse I have a handwritten note: God calls us to be weird (unique) so we are totally different from the world (unbelievers).
Sing these prayers with me …
Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days; let them flow in endless praise,
let them flow in endless praise.
Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee,
swift and beautiful for thee.
Take my voice and let me sing always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be filled with messages from thee,
filled with messages from thee.
Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use every power as thou shalt choose,
every power as thou shalt choose.
Take my will and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne,
it shall be thy royal throne.
Take my love; my Lord, I pour at thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for thee,
ever, only, all for thee.
*All Scripture verses are taken from the English Standard Version of The Holy Bible.
**Find out more about “Take My Life and Let it Be” on hymnary.org or library.timelesstruths.org/music/
*** Image by Gloria Williams from Pixabay
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