Sweet Submission

Daily I come to kneel before You
Waiting to hear Your slightest demand.
Filled with devotion and aching to serve
My heart leaping happily to hear Your command.

Your word is my law, I answer Your wish
My heart rings with joy and my soul fills with light
These feelings are new and so different to me
Where once they were pain, now pure delight.

To dedicate self to the service of One
To ever endeavour to be just your best
Keep trying until you know you’ll succeed
And never relent and never take rest.

For this is the joy of submission I feel
To ache to be serving, to live to be giving.
To feel incomplete when there’s No-one to serve
One has to keep serving to keep themselves living.

Surrendering self to the power of One
To guide you and guard you, watch you and care
To bring you to wholeness and fullness of heart
Your life now complete, your heart fully bare.

And every fibre in all of your being
Is pleading and needing to serve only Him
To wait by His side sitting silent and watchful
To leap at His voice and His every whim.

To learn to be all that His deepest heart wishes
To serve Him with gladness and fullness of heart
To love Him, to help Him, to strengthen and care
All these are submission and, to me, a fine art.

I know I’m not perfect, I’m faulty and human
But I strive and I learn and I keep going forward
To be all He knows I can possibly be
And my sweet submission’s my greatest reward.

Serving Him eternally
(MD) rose anne (ws)
© 14 June 2005