Deliverance

O God of Unsearchable Greatness,

Before You I am nothing but vanity, iniquity, perishing;  Sin has forfeited Your favor, stripped me of Your image, banished me from Your presence, exposed me to the curse of Your law;

I cannot deliver myself, and am in despair.  But a resource is found in You, for without my desert or desire You did revise an everlasting plan, honorable to Your perfections, and which angels desired to look into.

And the Word which announces all the glory of this goodness is nigh me, invites me, beseeches me.   May I, a convinced and self-despairing sinner, find Jesus as the power unto salvation, his death the centre of all relief, the source of all gospel-blessings.

Help me to repair to that cross, be crucified to the world by it, and in it find deepest humiliation, motives to patience and self denial, grace for active benevolence, faith to grasp eternal life, hope to lift up my head, love to bind me forever to him who died and rose for me.

May His shed blood make me more thankful for Your mercies, more humble under Your correction, more zealous in Your service, more watchful against temptation, more contented in my circumstances, more useful to others.