my all for God's all

"I have found in many books many different ways of going to God and many different practices in living the spiritual life. I began to see that this was only confusing me, as the only thing I was seeking was to become wholly God's.

Thus, I resolved to give my all for God's all. After having given myself wholly to God that He might take away my sin, I renounced, for the love of God, everything that was not God, and I began to live as if there was none but God and I in the world.

Sometimes I imagined myself standing before Him as a poor criminal at the feet of the judge. At other times, I beheld Him in my heart as my Father and as my God. I worshiped Him as often as I could, keeping my mind in His holy presence and recalling it back to God as often as I found it had wandered from Him."

~From Practicing the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence