Father, You do not need my permission, my allowance, my surrender, I need it.  Please help me to make capturing me in the belly of the leviathan awaiting my mental transformation, unnecessary.  Right where you are, those are the words You said to me when I asked you to save me from this duty, this wonderful obligation, this poem you’ve written me into.  Free me from the prison of eternally pursuing some other meaning for my life than the one You’ve given me.  This is the miracle, that I may be an active delivery system and mobile platform for Your Holy Spirit.  The fact that I may be used to provide a one to one opportunity for You to speak with everyone I meet is more glory than I will ever deserve or need.  I rejoice in where You have me and submit to where You are taking me for realization of Your Perfect Will.

Let my life become active worship, empirical evidence of a living God.  I do not know where You will take me, but I do not need to know, that is the freedom I seek.  To be okay, in peace that surpasses my circumstances knowing that the current of this wonderful life leads exactly where you wish it to flow.  Enjoying the ride is the gift, knowing that You are God and that I neither have, need nor want to fill that role.  My life will not end in pity as will those of the powers who’ve challenged Your Authority.  I get to walk this skinny path, never testing the freedom of my disobedience, never wandering naked and alone in foul weather and darkness.  I get to be exactly the man You are shaping me to be, for this day is the one I’ve been given within Your Plan.  You do not need my permission to fulfill Your Will for this life that You own, but I surrender to it.  I recognize Your Authority and ask that You continue to dispel any illusion that may present itself, an unholy thought, in my susceptible mind.  I ask that You Armor me in Christ, protecting my thoughts from compulsion, whatever the origin.

I am not what I wish to become but that is irrelevant for I am exactly where You want me to be today.  Remove the ability to self-frustrate, wanting things to be different, when they are exactly as You’ve determined them to be for Your Good Purposes.  Let me rejoice in this moment, this opportunity, this position, so that I may be free to love, consciously concentrating and praying upon Your message of Salvation and Love.  Let me be transformed by Your Word and truly live as Solomon determined in Loving Fear of God rejoicing in all that I have been given.  Praise Your Name as I bask in the gracious opportunity to be of tremendous value to God.  In Jesus’ Name.