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Whatever It Takes

There’s a voice calling me, to an old rugged tree And it whispers draw closer to me. Leave this world far behind, there are new heights to climb And a new place in me you will find. Whatever it takes to draw closer to You Lord That’s what I’ll be willing to do. And whatever it takes to be more like You That’s what I’ll be willing to do. These are the opening lyrics to a song written many years ago by Lanny Wolfe. The first time I heard it my spirit was so moved that it became the theme song for my life. I am convinced one of the most difficult prayers to pray is a prayer of complete submission unto the Lord but I am also convinced it is the prayer that most moves our Father and this song is a song of submission. Check the next verse out: Take the dearest thing to me, Lord if that’s how it must be To draw me so much closer to Thee Let the disappointments come, lonely days without the sun If through sorrow more like You I’ll become. You don’t hear many prayers like this today. Most of us