Father, I praise and worship You. I bow down before You because You are exalted above all the earth, all the heavens, and all under the earth. Angles worship You; demons fear You. Only mankind dares to ignore You. But I’ve experienced You; I know You. I believe your Word and follow it. I desire to always do your will, but I face battles with myself first of all. Good things but not holy things pull me from You. The worldly culture tries to turn me in that direction, and Satan pulls at my mind and my flesh not to follow You.

Then I see Jesus standing at my heart’s door, knocking to come into those secret places that I’ve hidden from him. Those places I don’t even recognize myself as being walled off from Him. Even though they’re hidden from me, He sees them and asks me to give them as a sacrifice. I tell my Lord that as He reveals them, I’ll lay them on His cross.

Christ says He doesn’t want 75% of my life; He desires 100%. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength (Mark 12:30 NASB).

Only as we’re willing to come to that place – not of pain and sacrifice – but of joy and righteousness – can we fully enter into Isaiah’s worship of chapter 6:1-8. We see the Lord in more of his fullness than we have previously, and we realize anew how very holy He is, that even the angels continually minister praise, honor and glory to Him. When we see God like this, we realize how much we owe Him and rejoice, bowing before Him. We confess any sin we’ve overlooked beforehand and surrender to His will in all things. We give our Lord our spirits, as well as our minds, will, emotions and bodies. We say, Here I am, send me.