Continual Repentance

On Tuesday I blogged from Dr. Henry Blackaby’s devotional on repentance of sin. If you missed it, go back and check it out.

As we bring this week to a close, here was today’s prayer that I read from The Valley of Vision – Prayers of the Puritans on this very subject:

O God of grace,

You have imputed my sin to my substitute, and have imputed His righteousness to my soul, clothing me with a bridegroom’s robe, decking me with jewels of holiness.

But in my Christian walk I am still in rags; my best prayers are stained with sin, my penitential tears are so much impurity; my confessions of wrong are so many aggravations of sin; my receiving the Spirit is tinctured with selfishness.

I need to repent of my repentance;
I need my tears to be washed;
I have no robe to bring to cover my sins, no loom to weave my own righteousness.

I am always standing clothed in filthy garments, and by grace am always receiving change of raiment, for You always justify the ungodly.

I am always going into the far country, and always returning home as a prodigal, always saying, Father, forgive me, and You are always bringing for the best robe.

Every morning let me wear it, every evening return to it, go out to the day’s work in it, be married in it, be bound in death in it, stand before the great white throne in it, enter heaven in it shining as the sun.

Grant me never to lose sight of
the exceeding sinfulness of sin,
the exceeding righteousness of salvation
the exceeding glory of Christ,
the exceeding beauty of holiness,
the exceeding wonder of grace! Amen

Wow, that is powerful! That’s my prayer today. How about you? – Bill Welte is President & CEO of America’s Keswick

Team YOU: Psalm 116-118; Proverbs 24; 1 Corinthians 7:1-19

Motivations: Our trusting the Lord does not mean that there are not times of tears. I think it is a mistake as Christians to act as though trusting the Lord and tears are not compatible. Francis A. Schaeffer

Practice to Remember: Level 1:Philippians 3:12; Level 2: Philippians 3:12-16

Powered Up:  Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God, when to forethink is but to pray about everything, and to live in actual conditions is to be thankful in anything. Oswald Chambers