A Prayer
in days of trial
Scripture Reading: Judges 2
Yesterday considered a reason why we find that temptations linger and we struggle on our journey of faith. George Matheson’s prayer, the one I will share here, deals with this issue. I hope you find it helpful and can make it, or one like it, your own today:
O Lord, as long as I am part from you, I am self-satisfied, because I have no standard by which to measure my low stature. But when I come near you, there for the first time I see myself. In your light I behold my darkness. In your purity I behold my corruption. My very confession of sin is the fruit of holiness. Oh! Divine Man, let me gaze on you more and more until, in the vision of your brightness, I loathe the sight of my impurity, until in the blaze of that glory which human eye has not seen I fall prostrate, blinded, broken, to rise again a new man in you.
Amen.