O, Sacred Light Consume Me!

Prayer

O Sacred Light Consume me!

Baptize me again in your most holy and furiously amazing LOVE!

Wash me from my sins, 

from striving, 

from perfection,

from wandering about in my own worldly darkness.

save me again

and let me die to myself and be made alive in You.

How I am completely undone in Your presence!

O, Holy Father of Lights,

I long for every good and every perfect thing that You have for me.

My soul aches and yearns for more of You.

When may I be held in Your arms once again close to Your heart?

My heart cannot move, but to hear Yours beat first.

Baptize me in Your LOVE again!

Let me never forget You.

Remind me of Your pain, Your struggle, on the night they betrayed You.

O, Sacred heavenly Light to consume me in Your loving presence.

Let me behold Your beautiful face.

I wish that I could have been the one to wipe the blood from Your brow,

To have caught the sweat from your body as You carried Your cross,

I would take the crown of thorns for You,

I should have been the one...

not You, my sweet Lord, not You.

Ah! You knew me even then... 

You were in hot pursuit of me. 

Even then You knew the truth about me:

I would have reacted in fear- 

though today my heart looks back with hopeful courage

as if I were then, the person You have made me to be now.

Forgive me of my own neglect of You.

My soul longs for Your breath

I cannot live but to breathe in Your holy presence-

I cannot go on without Your life in me, God!

My spirit longs for You

Come fill me again, God-

Overflow me with Your presence!

Let me be fully light!

O most holy sacred Light,

There are many who do not know you yet...

Open the eyes of their understanding

Give them Your holy wisdom and revelation!

How my heat longs for them to know You,

That they too might be consumed by your holy LOVE and light.

In Jesus' holy name,

Amen

John 17, Ephesians 1:17-21