December 12th A Prayer for Surrender
Luke 1: 38 (GW) 38 Mary answered, “I am the Lord’s servant. Let everything you’ve said happen to me.” Then the angel left her.
Today’s prayer:
Lord, I want to kneel with Mary this Christmas and proclaim that I am your servant, but I confess it’s hard for me. The thought of being a servant, bonded and captive to you, wages war with my pride and sensibilities. I would rather call you Father, or God, than to come under your sovereignty and control and submit to you as my Lord and Master. And yet these are the very titles your Son and his mother gave to you. So, Lord, not my will, but thy will be…
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