Boldest Prayer

The boldest prayer I’ve ever known

Is Your will be done dear Lord, Your will alone

Not mine but Yours not then but now

Which leaves me asking: how?

How Lord do I walk Your will

While in sin I live still?

How then to put down my desire

To slowly burn in Your fire

The world’s works and wants and loves?

Instead seek and savor only Your design above

To live as though Your kingdom come

Redeeming this, my sinful slum,

For Your glory and Yours alone

Note: This has been a summer (a season really) of prayer for me, refreshing in a way I didn't realize I needed until new words started to come to mind. Isn't it funny that so often we don't know what we need until part of that need starts being met? I find when I am consistently seeking the Lord, words, creativity, creation- they come so much easier and smoother, frequently at times I struggle to capture them in the hectic busy-ness or the midst of sleepy nights. Those I choose to cherish as moments with the Lord just for me.

But this is a prayer I have been struggling with over the last few years, a prayer that is both terrifying and exhilarating. It is the boldest prayer I know and all too often I neglect it, whether from fear or selfishness, because I convince myself that life is easier under my control. What a lie. And yet, wrestling with my will versus His, I am still left wondering: what does pursuing God's will practically look like? The answer I consistently come to is: you'll never know if you don't ask.

All for the glory of God.