Help me serve you Lord, for I am too accustomed to serving mainly myself.
Help me serve you, Lord, with all my heart and all my mind, for I am too used to the distraction of my selfish interests.
Help me serve you, Lord, for my salvation lies only in your service. To desire and to pursue becoming a master of others, a hero or a show-off is to choose the path taken by the evil one.
Help me serve you, Lord, for only you can save us, have saved us, and will always save us. I know the path of self-glorification best and I don't have much experience with following your path.
Help me serve you, Lord, for all you've ever done is serve us, while I complain and am ungrateful, as if you owe me something.
Help me serve you Lord, for you created a beautiful world. We were selfish and ungrateful, so you took on flesh and sacrificed that flesh to show us how there is no greater love than to seek to do your will through service. I am caught up in myself and I actually ignore how you gave me your all.
Help me serve you, Lord, for you are always there to save me, but in my selfish blindness, I demand that others rescue me and do your job as Savior.
Help me serve you, Lord, because all I seem to want to do is prove my worth and importance to you and to others through the "good" and "helpful" things I do.
Help me serve you, Lord, for only you can and have made a worthy sacrifice. Don't accept my gifts when they are tainted by my pride. Please, Lord, don't let me insult you that way.
Help me serve you, Lord. I am no good at this.
Lord, have mercy.
Amen.
Laura Marie Paxton
09/05/14
