Devotion:
Read Galatians 2:19-20.
We are ending the week reading the same verses we had on Monday. Verse 20 is our primary focus. Here is how The Message translation offers it: “Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not ‘mine,’ but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Tomorrow we will be focusing on Jesus’ prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, a prayer of total surrender to God. This verse from Galatians speaks of being “crucified with Christ” which is also a statement of complete surrender. The prayer that is our “personal worship option” for today is one way of describing what this life of complete surrender looks and sounds like.
Personal Worship Option:
John Wesley was the founder of the “Methodist Movement” in England in the 1700s. For the people he led, he had a covenant prayer which they prayed at least once a year. Here it is for you to consider, as it would have been written for today:
Lord, I am no longer my own, but yours.
Put me to what you will, rank me with who you will.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be employed by you or laid aside for you,
exalted for you or brought low for you.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and heartily yield all things to your pleasure and disposal.
And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
you are mine, and I am yours. So be it.
And the covenant which I have made on earth,
let it be ratified in heaven. Amen.
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