longing for others

How desperately do I want people to know Jesus?
How much am I longing for the specific people God has placed in my life?
How often do I ask God, what would it take? What do you need lord? How I can help you? How can I give radically, give faithfully, pray with confidence that you will do what only you can, bringing people to Yourself?
How much do I really want you for them?

So long, O Lord, I have seen the lack of desire for people to know you, submit to you, love you, die to themselves for you. I have been blind to the lack of MY desire and MY passion for them to know you and submit to you and love you and die to themselves for you.

Deepen my longing lord.
Make it just a tad bit more like yours.
A longing in which deep cries out to deep.
Where every other passion and concern of mine pales in comparison to my desire to know you and be known by you and for my brothers and sisters to know you and be known by you.

Use my life as a testament to the joy set before us, as we follow our Lord, and go to the cross despising its shame.

Use me lord, who doesn't know how to be a daughter as a vision of how satisfying it is to be your daughter. So that every girl who hasn't had a family to cherish her daughter can see and know what it is to be adopted into your family.

I know my faith in small when I consider what you can do in changing hearts, quickening souls, bringing people to yourself. I keep thinking that there is no hope for change in so many of the people that I love.

Whom you have chosen, nothing can separate you from completing the work that you have begun. No one can separate one from the love of God which is through Christ. If you didn't spare your own son, what will you withhold from us? Nothing shall separate us from you.