The Dark Guest
"Destroy, O God, the dark guest within whose hidden presence makes my life a hell. Yet thou has not left me here without grace; the cross still stands and meets my needs in the deepest straits of the soul.
I thank thee that my remembrance of it is like David's sight of Goliath's sword which preached forth thy deliverance.
The memory of my great sins, my many temptations, my falls, bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of thy great help, of thy support from heaven, of the great grace that saved such a wretch as I am.
There is no treasure so wonderful as that continuous experience of thy grace toward me which alone can subdue the risings of sin within: give me more of it."
~from The Valley of Vision
I thank thee that my remembrance of it is like David's sight of Goliath's sword which preached forth thy deliverance.
The memory of my great sins, my many temptations, my falls, bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of thy great help, of thy support from heaven, of the great grace that saved such a wretch as I am.
There is no treasure so wonderful as that continuous experience of thy grace toward me which alone can subdue the risings of sin within: give me more of it."
~from The Valley of Vision
Comments
Post a Comment