pride

It is so easy to become prideful I think. Each day, I live, I make my own choices, it is easy to fall into the mindset that I have so much control and power and I am so great. but that isn't how it is really; I am nothing, I am a self-seeking man, I am incredibly broken, I am dead, without the grace of Jesus! Here is a prayer I read this morning from a puritan way back in the day, and it is a great reminder to me of my place, and the amazing grace and mercy of Him.

O Lord God, Who inhabitest eternity,

The heavens declare thy glory,

The earth thy riches, 

The universe is thy temple;

Thy presence fills immensity, 

Yet thou hast of thy pleasure created life, and communicated happiness;

Thou hast made me what I am, and given me what I have;

In thee I live and move and have my being;

Thy providence has set the bounds of my habitation, and wisely administers all my affairs.

I thank thee for thy riches to me in Jesus, for the unclouded revelation of him in thy Word, where I behold his Person, character, grace, glory, humiliation, sufferings, death, and resurrection;

Give me to feel the need of his continual saviourhood, and cry with Job, "I am vile," with Peter, "I perish," with the publican, "Be merciful to me, a sinner."

Subdue in me the love of sin,

Let me know the need of renovation as well as of forgiveness, in order to serve and enjoy thee for ever.

I come to thee in the all-prevailing name of Jesus, with nothing of my own to plead, no works, no worthiness, no promises.

I am often straying, often knowingly opposing thy authority, often abusing thy goodness;

Much of my guilt arises from my religious privileges, my low estimation of them, my failure to use them to my advantage, 

But I am not careless of thy favour or regardless of thy glory;

Impress me deeply with a sense of thine omnipresence, that thou art about my path, my ways, my lying down, my end.

To Jesus be all glory, and honor, and praise, forever and ever. Amen.