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Your steadfast love never ceases
Your patient mercy never ends
It never ends
All I want is to praise You
All I want is "Your will be done"
Your will be done

All my intentions are only
Opposition to Your will
Lord use me still

Teach me to wait on Your faithfulness
Teach me to bear the yoke You have for me,
the yoke you have for me.
All I want is to apprehend that for which You apprehended me
You apprehended me.

All my intentions are only
Opposition to Your will
Lord use me still

So, I’ll wait alone in silence
I’ll put my lips down in the dirt,
Down in the dirt
All I want is Your presence,
All I want is to live in You
I live in You

All my intentions are only
Opposition to Your will
Lord use me still

REFLECT

This song was inspired by the passage Lamentations 3:22-32.  Go ahead and take a look at that first.
I find this passage to be praise of God’s faithfulness.  Not just in word, but in works as well.  What I mean is this: it seems rather easy to sing praise songs, it makes us feel good; most Christians do not have trouble saying "Praise Jesus!"  (Especially, in the South)  But we should reflect on this.
Do our works reflect our words?  We should want them to, otherwise we are hypocrites.  Of course, what does it mean when our words are unwholesome. "Out of the heart, the mouth speaks."  As it relates to this song, however, if we say that God is faithful, then our lives should reflect that.
Basically, we say that "All I want is to praise You", but it is our intentions that oppose God.  We say, "I want to praise You, Lord, so I will do this or that".  Is that what God has asked of us?  To praise God’s faithfulness we must learn to wait on Him, submit our lives to Him.[Lamentations 3:25-26]  Then we say, "All I want is Your will be done".  Not that we know it completely, but we trust God to lead us in it because of His faithfulness.  He was faithful to begin His work in you, and He is faithful to complete it.  Our response is seen in Lamentations 3:27-30.  And when our hearts are filled with a desire to serve Him, we should say, "Lord, why have you made me Your own?  I want to make that my own."[Philippians 3:12] 
That is my desire for you, as well.  I want you to know God’s will for your life, and for you to seek after it patiently.  Even now I am tempted to say that I will do anything to help you in that endeavor.  But I should say, if it is God’s will, trusting that His steadfast love will produce good works in me.  Any work of my own, no matter how honorable, no matter the intention, is worthless in the Kingdom of God.  In scripture we find that it was Paul’s intention to visit the church in Rome.  But that was not God’s will.  We must surrender our will, to the praise of His glory.
So, I pray that His Word will fill our hearts, that His work will be perfected in us, transforming us, that He may receive all of the glory.  And I must wait patiently, trusting Him, with praise in my heart, and truth on my lips.

Use Me Still by Brian Wetzel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.