Lord, Help Me Distrust Myself Today


The Valley of Vision is the most insightful and easily the most impactful book I have ever read. If you haven't read it, you need to, today if possible.

This morning I was re-reading one of my favorite prayers in it, "Love to Jesus." The end of the prayer is striking:

"[God,] let me see that the truest revelation of thyself is when thou dost eclipse all my personal glory and all the honour, pleasure and good of this world. The Son breaks out in glory when he shows himself as one who outshines all creation, makes men poor in spirit, and helps them to find their good in him. Grant that I may distrust myself, to see my all in thee" (47).

That is my prayer today, that God would be everything to me and myself nothing, that I would be acutely aware of His infinite better-ness than all.

Lord, help me distrust myself to trust in You.