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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Monday, November 28, 2005
Choices
[Help me] to deem it an honour to be employed by thee
as an instrument in thy hands,
ready to seize every opportunity of usefulness,
and willing to offer all my talents to thy service.
All thy work for me is perfect,
and I praise thee.
as an instrument in thy hands,
ready to seize every opportunity of usefulness,
and willing to offer all my talents to thy service.
All thy work for me is perfect,
and I praise thee.
Sunday, November 27, 2005
The Infinite and the Finite
Let me live a life of self-distrust,
dependence on Thyself,
mortification,
crucifixion,
prayer.
dependence on Thyself,
mortification,
crucifixion,
prayer.
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Weaknesses
I request only to see the face of him I love,
to be content with bread to eat,
with raiment to put on,
if I can be brought to thy house in peace.
to be content with bread to eat,
with raiment to put on,
if I can be brought to thy house in peace.
Friday, November 25, 2005
Need of Jesus
I was a stranger, an outcast, a slave, a rebel,
but thy cross has brought me near,
has softened my heart,
has made me thy Father's child,
has admitted me to thy family,
has made me joint-heir with thyself.
but thy cross has brought me near,
has softened my heart,
has made me thy Father's child,
has admitted me to thy family,
has made me joint-heir with thyself.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Peril
Thy never-failing providence orders every event,
sweetens every fear,
reveals evil's presence lurking in seeming good,
brings real good out of seeming evil,
makes unsatisfactory what I set my heart upon,
to show me what a short-sighted creature I am,
and to teach men to live by faith upon
thy blessed self.
sweetens every fear,
reveals evil's presence lurking in seeming good,
brings real good out of seeming evil,
makes unsatisfactory what I set my heart upon,
to show me what a short-sighted creature I am,
and to teach men to live by faith upon
thy blessed self.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Conflict
Teach me to look to Jesus in His cross,
and so to know sin's loathsomeness in thy sight
And my holiness be the atmosphere
in which I live.
and so to know sin's loathsomeness in thy sight
And my holiness be the atmosphere
in which I live.
Monday, November 21, 2005
Need of Grace
O that all my distresses and apprehensions
might prove but Christ's school
to make me fit for greater service
by teaching me the great lessons of humility.
might prove but Christ's school
to make me fit for greater service
by teaching me the great lessons of humility.
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Reliance
...to make the creature [the flesh] something is to make it stand between thee and me, so that I do not walk humbly and holily.
Saturday, November 19, 2005
New Beginning
Enable me to remember that blood which cleanseth all sin,
to believe in that grace that subdues all iniquities,
to resign myself to that agency which can deliver me from the bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.
to believe in that grace that subdues all iniquities,
to resign myself to that agency which can deliver me from the bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.
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