Giving Up On Ourselves

something i read during QT few days ago.

a poem which helps us to realize the importance of giving up on ourselves so that we might receive grace more profoundly:

"Sever me from myself that i may be grateful to you;
may i perish to myself that i may be safe in you;
may i die to myself that i may live in you;
may i wither to myself that i may blossom in you;
may i be emptied of myself that i may abound in you;
may i be nothing to myself that i may be all in you."

"God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to." - Elisabeth Elliot