Prayers Of Submission Poem by Gedion Onyango

Oh Lord!
You know how passionate and in-depth sinner I am
You understand how I excite in sin and darkness
You know how they blow me from your love - and how I flow with it
Lord you know, how wicked I am
And my excellence in executing evil
To slander and corrupt - to gossip - you know all and perfectly so -
Oh! How I luster in arrogance!
How I can be ostensibly selfish and greedy and stubbornly rebellious

But that hasn't stopped you from kindly and faithfully looking at me
You've - from the beginning of time, believed in me
In my capacity to do good as a human
To love you as your child
To be faithful
To trust you
To depend on you
To worship you

Oh! Father, that's why you've never blamed satan for my wrongful ways
You made me in fulfillment of all standards
Oh! Almighty Lord sustain me
Sustain me in you.
Rescue me from within,
Redeem me from the unsearchable depths of myself
Protect me from without
From me and corrupted subjects
And lead me
for I am blind
So I can be pure in your Holy Sight
Punish me accordingly in your love
Pave my path
And train me how to walk and learn from your tests
If any pain and despair is deserved for me in your sight
Oh! Lord, I shall accept - as long as you remain with me
If my murky and hollow desires
If my iniquities
When my sexual immorality and idolatry
Reaches you - Oh! Lord Allow me to seek you before I go to waste
When my humanly wisdom slander your name and glory
Oh! Lord have mercy on me

For you know how passionate and in-depth sinner I am
Oh Lord forgive me in your un-measurable forgiveness
And if I resent you
Oh! Lord sway me fast and route me back to you

Oh! Lord. Nail me to your path - impossibly ground me there
Nail me there
So that I may succumb not to 'beauty' of sinful philosophies
Clamp me there until I become fully obedient and faithful
Nail me there for eternity Lord

Oh! Lord.
Let temptations that come my way be like quicksand
Let them drag me deeper into your love with every slight move I make
Let them swallow me wholly down to your faithfulness
Let them strengthen me in following your every command
Let your will be my lifestyle Lord
Oh! School me, Almighty Father
In your ways
Teach me Lord beyond any other understanding
Let those priding in their ignorance and wickedness
Let those despising you and lost in their paganism!
Know that you've reigned for generations
Let them know your reality is not from their acceptances, beliefs or rejections
You're God!
Not those artistically curved from dust
Or those shrined in 'holy' places
Your ways are incomprehensible by humans and demons

You reign with humility, openness and love
Yet you posses Almighty power and Glorious name
Father! I wholesomely submit to you and your will