Supplication: Being Rather Than Doing

Being Rather Than Doing

We pray Thee, Lord, to make us more like Thyself in every respect. Once we were all for doing; now we are much more for being. We would rather sit with Mary and do nothing but learn, than become cumbered with much serving like good Martha. Lord, we sometimes feel we could honestly say, some of us, we could not do any more that we know of, or else we would do it; but now we want to serve Thee better, and we pray that we may do it with a simpler motive, with greater singleness of heart, with deeper devotion to Christ. We want not only to live and work, but to have Christ living in us, and for our life to be but a branch streamlet from the mighty river of the life of Christ. Lord, make us like the Firstborn among many brethren. He is the very model of the family. Make us like Him, O our Father, for the glory of Thy Name. Amen.