A Puritan Prayer of Submissive Faith
Thou bottomless fountain of all good…,
Help me to see how good Thy will is in all,
and even when it crosses mine
teach me to be pleased with it.
Grant me to feel Thee in fire, and food and
every providence…
I give myself to Thee out of love,
for all I have or own is Thine,
my goods, family, church, self,
to do with as Thou wilt,
to honour Thyself by me…
If it be consistent with Thy eternal counsels,
the purpose of Thy grace,
and the great ends of Thy glory,
then bestow upon me the blessings of
Thy comforts;
If not, let me resign myself to
Thy wiser determinations.
A Prayer of Submissive Faith
“Thou bottomless fountain of all good…,
Help me to see how good Thy will is in all,
and even when it crosses mine
teach me to be pleased with it.”
Good News for the Overcommitted
In an attempt to balance what was said about praying and proclaiming the gospel to those around us after reading the last part of Edwards’ sermon on Sunday morning, please read the following:
It is loaded with risk, of course, to say what Kevin is saying, because some will interpret it as a license to coast. But it shouldn’t prevent us from offering this nuanced message, for some in the church truly need to hear it.
Here’s the conclusion:
No doubt some Christians need to be shaken out of their lethargy. I try to do that every Sunday morning and evening. But there are also a whole bunch of Christians who need to be set free from their performance-minded, law-keeping, world-changing, participate-with-God-in-recreating-the-cosmos shackles. I promise you, some of the best people in your churches are getting tired. They don’t need another rah-rah pep talk. They don’t need to hear more statistics and more stories Sunday after Sunday about how bad everything is in the world. They need to hear about Christ’s death and resurrection. They need to hear how we are justified by faith apart from works of the law. They need to hear the old, old story once more. Because the secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.
(The above was taken from JT’s blog.)
