This is so scary...but so necessary.
I have chosen to center my life around two prayers that up to this point, I have never had the courage to pray...
"Lord, from this moment on ___________ is Yours. Do with it what You will..."
I spend so much time living my own life, trying to do everything and handle everything alone. But so far living for myself has not served me well. Not that this surprises me...all my life I have heard that I must surrender my whole self to God, and to let Him lead...to trust Him with all of my heart to work out all of the circumstances in my life. But I have never had the courage to completely surrender, and even when I think I am ready for it, my heart had just never fully been "in it". But now I am fully prepared...my heart is fully prepared. From now on, everything that I do in my life is going to be completely devoted to the Lord. When I walk into the studio to teach I am going to say, "Lord, this classroom is Yours...these children are Yours. Show me what to do with what You've entrusted to me."
"Lord, give me faith like a child..."
Picture a little girl in her Sunday School class. She hears the story about Peter walking on water towards Jesus; the story of Jesus when he feeds five thousand people with five loaves of bread and five fish; the story of when Jesus is crucified and then he rises again three days later. She listens with awe and wonder. She hears her teacher telling each story and holds onto every word spoken. Then she excitedly runs to her mother to say, "Guess what we learned about today?" She believes every piece of the story and she needed no convincing at all. Just because her teacher said it, she believed it was true. Years ago, this little girl was me! But as "grown ups", we hear things about God and we question it. We wonder how these things could possibly apply to us. And why?? Why, when not so many years ago we were sitting in our Sunday school class hanging onto every word our teacher said to us about Bible stories? Imagine what life could be like if we could be like that little child again...hanging onto every word from God because it would be all that we'd need. We wouldn't need anyone to convince us, we'd just...believe it. I think that God can give me that, and that is my prayer.
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