Wanting to Want God

O God, I have tasted Your goodness,

and it has both satisfied me

and made me thirsty for more.

I am painfully conscious of

my need of further grace.

I am ashamed of my lack of desire.

O God, the Triune God, I want to want You;

I long to be filled with longing;

I thirst to be made more thirsty still.

Show me Your glory, I pray,

so I may know You indeed.

Begin in mercy a new work of love within me…

Give me grace to rise and follow You

up from this misty lowland

where I have wandered so long.

In Jesus’ name.

Amen.

– A. W. Tozer