This prayer is from John Baillie’s A Diary of Private Prayer, a favorite prayer book of my mom’s. And now, like she did every day, I pray the morning and evening prayers from it. I love these prayers written, so it seems, in a way-back era, although only published in the last century, the publication date being 1957. Baillie’s Christian message is clear. We need’s God’s grace and mercy because we can’t rely on our own our own strength. On Ash Wednesday tomorrow we will be reminded, ‘You are dust and to dust you shall return.’
O God my Creator and Redeemer, I may not go forth to-day except Thou dost accompany me with Thy blessing. Let not the vigor and freshness of the morning, or the glow of good health, or the present prosperity of my undertaking, deceive me into a false reliance upon my own strength.
O God my Creator and Redeemer, I may not go forth to-day except Thou dost accompany me with Thy blessing. Let not the vigor and freshness of the morning, or the glow of good health, or the present prosperity of my undertaking, deceive me into a false reliance upon my own strength.
RSS Feed