A prayer.

From The Valley of Vision - a book of prayers from the Puritan Movement.

"Glorious Jehovah, my Covenant God,

All thy promises in Christ Jesus are

yea and amen, and all shall be fulfilled.

Thou hast spoken them, and they shall be done,

commanded, and they shall come to pass.

Yet I have often doubted thee,

have lived at times as if there were no God.

Lord, forgive me that death in life,

when I have found something apart from thee,

when I have been content with ephemeral things.

But through thy grace I have repented;

Thou hast given me to read my pardon

in the wounds of Jesus,

and my soul doth trust in him, my God incarnate,

Teach me to be resigned to thy will,

to delight in thy law,

to have no will but thine,

to believe that everything thou doest is 

for my good.

Help me to leave my concerns in thy hands,

for thou hast power over evil,

and bringest from it an infinite progression

of good,

until thy purposes are fulfilled.

Bless me with Abraham's faith

that staggers not at promises through unbelief.

May I not instruct thee in my troubles,

but glorify thee in my trials;

Grant me a distinct advance in the divine life;

May I reach a higher platform,

leave the mists of doubt and fear in the valley,

and climb to hill-tops of eternal security in Christ

by simply believing he cannot lie,

or turn from his purpose.

Give me the confidence I ought to have in him

who is worthy to be praised

and who is blessed forevermore."

"There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot ever be accepted at all. This is not true of us only when we believe. It is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be trust as long as we live. Our need of Christ does not cease with our believing; nor does the nature of our relation to Him or to God through Him ever alter, no matter what our attainments in Christian graces or our achievements in behavior may be. It is always on His “blood and righteousness” alone that we can rest." - B.B. Warfield