Chris Falson - Take My Life (Holiness) Lyrics

Take My Life (Holiness) is a prayer for character change set in short, repeated lines. The first part says that holiness is what the singer longs for and needs and is what God wants, and the second part repeats the same pattern with faithfulness. A central prayer asks God to take the heart and form it, take the mind and transform it, and take the will and conform it to His.

The last section repeats the pattern with righteousness, saying that it is longed for, needed and wanted by God. The themes follow Romans 12:1-2 on offering oneself and being transformed by the renewing of the mind, 1 Peter 1:16 on being holy because He is holy, and Psalm 51:10 on asking for a clean heart. The simple, repeated phrasing and steady melody make the song easy for a congregation to learn, and the tone is humble, sincere and focused on personal surrender rather than on any outward event, which suits a time of consecration or prayer.