All For His Sake: Change Me Completely

Change Me Completely

Looking at myself, I see that I need changed.

I’m down and discouraged just waiting to be rearranged.

Stubborn and willful I am.

Not much of a servant or yielding lamb.

So unfaithful to my Lord

When of His faithfulness I’m daily assured.

Run by my feelings; they’ve become my God.

In His love and mercy, God has not ceased to use His correcting rod.

So tired of all the dreams I’ve had in just these few passing days.

And yet I know they come from seeking comfort in unwholesome ways.

I delight in the pleasures of sin for a season,

Simply justifying all of my treason.

There is just so much wickedness in my heart.

Every time I’m reminded of it I’m torn apart.

I am so prideful and bitter, too.

Oh, Lord, I long for you to make me just like you!

When I see myself, it makes me so unhappy.

So I must turn to my Deliverer and He will save me

And change me completely.

Lord, change me completely,

Make me what you want me to be.

Forgive me of all my sin

And make me a new person within.

For all the pride I hold inside,

Give me your humble spirit instead to abide.

Purge my heart of all this bitterness

And give me unconditional love and forgiveness.

Cause my willful and stubborn will to die.

Grant me submission in a bountiful supply.

Help me wait on You

And be complete and content in what you choose to do.

When I need comfort, may I never look to myself,

But to the One Who will nurse me back to health.

Lord, may Your spirit control me from now to the end,

And the god of feelings be cast down never to rise again.

Lord, I’m so encouraged when I look to Thee!

I’m so lifted up and I feel so happy and free!

Lord, I’m so thrilled that You’ve promised to change me completely!

All For His Sake