"Ravished By God’s Love"

“Lord, I have been trying to earn my own salvation and weave my own righteousness. But you are my salvation and righteousness. I Cor. 1:30. I am accepted in your Son! Eph. 1:6, KJV. All my problems come because I am forgetting how loved, honored, beautiful, secure, rich, respected, embraced, free I am in Jesus. And all other ways of finding Love, honor, etc. are vain. Let me be so ravished with your love of me that no other love can control me.”

Meditate on this poem by John Donne. Make it a prayer —

Take me to you, imprison me.
For I, except you enthrall me,
never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste,
except you ravish me.

From, Paul Thompson’s “Idolatry: Its Nature and Effects” in The Gospel and Life Change p. 69