Monday, November 17, 2008
Prayer
We had this wonderful prayer in our liturgy on Sunday.
We prayed this collectively as a church body after having read the 10 commandments together, and then knelt and confessed our sins privately.
Take a moment to pray this prayer with other Christian brothers and sisters around the world!
O God of grace, You have imputed my sin to my substitute, and have imputed His righteousness to me, clothing me with a bridegroom's robe, decking me with jewels of holiness. But in my Christian walk, I am still in rags; my best prayers are stained with sin; my penitential tears are so much impurity; my confessions of wrong are so many aggravations of sin. I need to repent of my repentance; I need my tears to be washed; I have no robe to bring to cover my sins, no loom to weave my own righteousness; I am always standing clothed in filthy garments, and by grace am always receiving change of raiment, for You justify the ungodly. Grant me never to lose sight of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the exceeding righteousness of salvation, the exceeding glory of Christ, the exceeding beauty of holiness, and the exceeding wonder of grace! Amen
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