Here we are

A simple clay bowl held out empty in two open hands, waiting to receive whatever is poured into it, showing surrender to whatever comes.

Lord, here we are. Do with us whatever seems best to you. Only give us, we humbly ask, a spirit that is sorry for our sins and patient enough to wait for you. Lord, make our service pleasing to you while we live, and make our souls ready for you when we die. We ask this for the sake of Jesus Christ, your Son, who saves us. Amen.

But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”

2 Samuel 15:26 (BSB)

Adapted from William Laud, via A Chain of Prayer Across the Ages (1913), in plain words. The verse is from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Drawing: Mutter.