Today, I thought I'd go with an updated version of The Covenant Prayer that John Wesley attributed to the 17th-c Puritan leader Richard Alleine. It goes like this:
I am no longer my own, but yours.
Put me to what you will, rank with me with whom you will;
put me to doing, put me to suffering;
let me be employed for 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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