[Faith-talk] A prayer of contentment
Sheila Leigland
sleigland at bresnan.net
Wed Sep 11 00:37:11 UTC 2013
that is a neat prayer. I enjoy hearing them.
On 9/10/2013 3:30 PM, Poppa Bear wrote:
> Contentment
> Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty,
> make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be
> denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by
> these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me willingly
> accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest
> evil, and be delivered from it with gratitude to Thee, acknowledging this as
> the highest testimony of Thy love.
> When thy Son, Jesus, came into my soul instead of sin He became more dear to
> me than sin had formerly been; His kindly rule replaced sin's tyranny. Teach
> me to believe that if ever I would have any sin subdued I must not only labour
> to overcome it, but must invite Christ to abide in the place of it, and He
> must become to me more than vile lust had been; that His sweetness, power,
> life may be there. Thus I must seek a grace from Him contrary to sin, but must
> not claim it apart from Himself.
> When I am afraid of evils to come, comfort me by showing me that in myself I
> am a dying, condemned wretch, but in Christ I am reconciled and live; that in
> myself I find insufficiency and no rest, but in Christ there is satisfaction
> and peace; that in myself I am feeble and unable to do good, but in Christ I
> have ability to do all things. Though now I have His graces in part, I shall
> shortly have them perfectly in that state where Thou wilt show Thyself fully
> reconciled, and alone sufficient, efficient, loving me completely, with sin
> abolished. O Lord, hasten that day.
>
>
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