O Lord, grant that I may always acknowledge You as the King and sovereign Ruler of my soul. Everything I have I have received from You; how, then, could I fail to understand that You hold all rights over me? Yet You are a King Who seems to take no account of His sovereign rights. Why did You have to abase Yourself to the obscurity of Bethlehem, to humiliate Yourself even to dying on the Cross, even to shedding all Your Blood even to win my heart? My heart, my whole life, and all my being already belonged to You, because You are my Creator and I was created for Your glory. But You willed to forget all Your rights and You came to me like a beggar, seeking my poor heart.
O Jesus, how can I still resist Your infinite love? Take my heart; take my whole being; and make me a living praise of Your glory.
Christ came to us in perfect humility; not even the home Mary and Joseph had prepared for Him in Nazareth was humble enough, but He preferred to be born in a cave and lain in a manger, to show us that if He will grace even such a place with His presence, then we should not doubt that He can and will grace our hearts and souls likewise!
But when He comes again it will not be in humility, but in all His glory.
Amen.
>O Lord, grant that I may always acknowledge You as the King and sovereign Ruler of my soul. Everything I have I have received from You; how, then, could I fail to understand that You hold all rights over me? Yet You are a King Who seems to take no account of His sovereign rights. Why did You have to abase Yourself to the obscurity of Bethlehem, to humiliate Yourself even to dying on the Cross, even to shedding all Your Blood even to win my heart? My heart, my whole life, and all my being already belonged to You, because You are my Creator and I was created for Your glory. But You willed to forget all Your rights and You came to me like a beggar, seeking my poor heart.
>O Jesus, how can I still resist Your infinite love? Take my heart; take my whole being; and make me a living praise of Your glory.
Christ came to us in perfect humility; not even the home Mary and Joseph had prepared for Him in Nazareth was humble enough, but He preferred to be born in a cave and lain in a manger, to show us that if He will grace even such a place with His presence, then we should not doubt that He can and will grace our hearts and souls likewise!
But when He comes again it will not be in humility, but in all His glory.
Amen.
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