"
Father, I want to know Thee,
but my coward heart fears to give up its toys.

I cannot part with them wihout inward bleeding,
and I do not try to hide from Thee the terror of the parting.
I come trembling, but I do come.

Please root from my heart
all those things which I have cherished so long
and which have become a very part of my living self,
so that Thou mayest enter
and dwell there without a rival.

In Jesus' name, Amen.
"

~ A.W. Tozer