In the month of June, I taught on Worship for four weeks at our church. Those times birthed something in me that seems to grow deeper day by day. It is a desire to once again spend my days with God. While it sounds wonderful and it is, it makes it very difficult to work and accomplish all I need to accomplish in a day.
It seemed every day through the week, I would sit down to work, but each day, without fail, began to worship and didn’t get anything else done – He is calling and I must go.
On Friday, I made myself sit down to write some motivations for the coming week. I did good, for a while, then a song came to my heart. It is called, I Give Myself Away, by William McDowell. I want to share some of the lyrics with you today.
I give myself away
So You can use me
Here I am
Here I stand
Lord, my life is in your hands
Lord, I’m longing to see
Your desires revealed in me
I give myself away
These words stopped me in my tracks as I began to sing them to the Lord. It is my desire to see God’s desire revealed in me.
The song goes on to say.
Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down
Here I am to say that You’re my God, You’re altogether
lovely, altogether worthy, altogether wonderful to me.
I give myself away
The words at the end are my very favorite.
My life is not my own
To you I belong
I give myself, I give myself to You
Why am I sharing this with you? Because I don’t believe it is only me that God is drawing into a place of intimacy with Him.
I believe He is calling those who have an ear to hear into a time of intimacy with Him. That means we must come when He calls. We must lay everything else aside. We must remember that our life is not our own. We belong to Him. If He desires our company, and what an honor that is, we must stop what we are doing and run to Him.
I don’t know if this speaks to you today but if it does, look up this song and listen to it a few times – let it go deep. God is looking for those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth – will you be one of those?
