Meditations

Give Me Yourself. The Lord Gave, and the Lord Has Taken Away. Job 1.21. Lord, these are the words you gave your servant Job to say as his troubles multiplied. How good you are to once again put those words in the mouth and in the heart of such a sinner as I. You once gave me health, and I forgot you. You have taken it away, and now I am coming back to you. O precious mercy, you are wrenching away God's gifts that were separating me from Him, in order to give me God Himself. Lord, take away anything in me that is not you, provided only that you give me yourself. Everything belongs to you. You are the Lord. Take charge of everything, worldly goods, honors, health, life. Tear away, down to the roots, everything that would take your place within me.