During my prayer time this morning ... I used one of my favorite devotional books, the Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions. Here is an excerpt from the prayer that I used today ... it focuses on Jesus Christ.
"O source of all good,
What shall I render to you for the gift of gifts,
Your own dear Son, begotten not created,
my redeemer, proxy, surety, substitute,
his self-emptying incomprehensible,
his infinity of love beyond the heart's grasp.
Herein is wonder of wonders:
He came below to raise me above,
was born like me that I might become like him.
When I was undone, with no will to return to him,
and no intellect to devise recovery,
he came, God-incarnate, to save me to the uttermost,
as man to die my death,
to shed satisfying blood on my behalf,
to work out a perfect righteousness for me.
Let me clasp my savior to my heart,
embrace him with undying faith,
rejoicing that he is mine and I am his.
In him you have given me so much that heaven can give no more.
Amen."
Thanks for stopping by . . .
pj
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