Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee. Take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of Thy love. Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for Thee.
Take my voice and let me sing always, only for my King. Take my lips and let them be filled with messages from Thee. Take my silver and my gold not a mite would I withhold. Take my intellect and use every power as You choose.
::Chorus:: Here am I, all of me. Take my life, it's all for Thee.
Take my will and make it Thine it shall be no longer mine. Take my heart it is Thine own it shall be Thy royal throne. Take my love, my Lord I pour at Your feet its treasure store Take myself and I will be ever, only, all for Thee. Take myself and I will be ever, only, all for Thee.
Here am I, all of me. Take my life, it's all for Thee.
main lesson: surrender control of everything over to the Lord.
it's been a rough few days... weeks even... but more so the past few days... there's been lots of stress... trying to combat it with prayer, meditation, reflection, calming, sabbath... and ultimately, obedience through faith and trust... i've been getting that "head feels heavy" feeling recently... literally and non-literally... literally, well my head actually feels a lot heavier when i'm standing upright... and non-literally, well even if i'm not thinking about anything in particular, my mind seems stuffed to capacity...
this "head feels heavy" feeling is not purely arising due to stress and worrying... altho i admit, i have my fair share of that on and off these days... rather, i feel as if i'm just living through life, doing what i have to do, and it's been mentally straining... but i've come to believe that the path of life we walk was never meant to be easy... part of life includes being pushed beyond our limits to learn to trust and rely on God every new day for things that we did not entrust to him for each of our "yesterdays"... i just gotta keep fighting the spiritual battles that seep into my mind and recognize, declare, and surrender to the power of the Holy Spirit living within me... no matter how tired or strained my mind is, gotta keep running the race... i think it is possible to run the race with a bit of mental fatigue... i think that back in the days of the Apostles and Paul, they must have had their days of mental fatigue as well, yet they kept running ever so swiftly... never letting their eyes stray from that which the Lord has called them to do...
the quesiton is... how do you define the line between 1) running the race under some mental difficulties [aka adversities] while striving onwards and 2) being overly mentally tired and weary from taking things into your own control? does that make sense? or am i looking from things w/ a really messed up perspective?