Lord, I offer you my life

That’s what I’m doing when I say, “I give myself to you.” I’m saying, “I’m no longer my owner, my master, my shepherd. You are my Owner, Master, Shepherd, Father, my treasure, my wisdom, my hope, my source of fullest and lasting pleasure.

I renounce finding all of that in me. I look for it now in you, because I am utterly yours.”

If I say to God in prayer, “O Lord, I give myself to You,” what I mean is this: I am saying a very earnest, heartfelt “Yes!” to God’s purchase of me by the death of his Son so that I belong to him.

He purchased me so that I belong to him, not only by virtue of his paying a price for me, but also by virtue of my willing surrender to him.