Lord if you were to strip away everything that I possessed would I fall to my knees and worship you?
Job 1: 20-22 “Then job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshipped. And he said naked I came from my mother’s womb and naked I shall return. The lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong”
I suppose when I was naked that’s when you had all of me. When I look back I realize that the first breath I inhaled could only be done by your grace, that uncontrollable cry when I came out of my mother’s womb could only be calmed by your finger, that first bit of milk on my tongue could only be swallowed by your compassion, those first steps could only be taken by your strength, those first words could only be spoken by your power.
I never knew that this world I was one day going to experience full force was one full of heart aches, pains, trials, immorality, lies, cheating, idolatry, temptations, which I have tragically partaken in all 
Altough born a sinner, when I was naked I wasn’t occupied by the clothes I was going to wear to try and impress some female.
- When I was naked I didn’t spend $20 every two weeks to get a fresh cut just to hear people glorify how I looked. Wait is that why you are causing me to go bald; cut me some slack Jesus.
- When I was naked I wasn’t occupied spending hours lusting after some fatal desire
- When I was naked I wasn’t making idols, all I knew was to be in the comfort of my mother’s bosom
- When I was naked I couldn’t talk or complain. Sometimes I wish I couldn’t talk now.
- When I was naked I had nothing to depend on but you and fully clothed I still have nothing to depend on but you. Sadly it took 23 years of wasting my life to realize this.
This “American lifestyle” is consumed with so many vain materialistic things and they easily make their way into our lives as top priorities, yet I stand before you and ask to be more like you. I mean lets be real about it even this blog sometimes get more attention than you. What a fricken shame man 
Do I fully understand what I am asking?
I remember the time I read about how the disciples were martyred for your name sake, and I fell to my knees and cried to you “Lord I am so afraid, please help me, please prepare me, please be with me” burdened by the fact that one day I could very well be the one being executed for your name sake.
I say that I desire to be a man after God’s own heart and I will pour out my soul to death because that is what you require of me” but have I even begin to grasp what I am saying? It’s one thing for me to just speak words that sound eloquent and moving, but it’s another thing to mean it and live it.
Christ! You stripped him from everything, every part of him. He literally did pour out his flesh and soul to death; I mean the very food he ate was to do your will.
What food am I eating? Have I counted the cost factor of picking up this cross? By the power of your Holy Spirit regenerating my heart and illuminating my eyes to truth, I believe I have. You have put this in me and I stand boldly and pronounce from the depths of my heart that if it be your will to strip me of all that I have, I will fall to my knees and worship you.
“Psalm 73: 25 -26 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever”
God I stand naked before you, submitting to your will, and bowing to your throne. My heart, my passion, my joy, my love, my desire, my thirst, my longing, my fire, my understanding, my hunger is strictly in you.
I hope this can encourage another to give Christ what belongs to him our LIFE. LOVE
