Election

Holy Trinity,

All praise to You for electing me to salvation, by foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus;

I adore the wonders of Your condescending love, marvel at the true believers high privilege within whom all heaven comes to dwell, abiding in God and God in Him;

I believe it, help me experience it to the full.

Continue to teach me that Christ’s righteousness satisfies justice and evidences Your love;

Help me to make use of it by faith as the ground of my peace and of Your favor and acceptance, so that I may live always near the cross.

It is not feeling the Spirit that proves my saved state but the truth of what Christ did perfectly for me;

All holiness in Him is by faith made mine, as if I had done it;

Therefore, I see the use of His righteousness, for satisfaction to divine justice and making me righteous.

It is not inner sensation that makes Christ’s death mine for that may be delusion, being without the Word, but His death apprehended by my faith, and so testified by Word and Spirit.

I bless You for these lively exercises of faith, for the righteousness that is mine in Jesus, for the grace to resign my will to You;

I rejoice to think that all things are at Your disposal, and I love to leave them there.

Then prayer turns wholly into praise, and all I can do is adore and love You.

I want not the favor of man to lean upon, for I know that Your electing grace is infinitely better.