Jul
15
2007
To Be Like Christ
Blessed are You, O God; teach us Your statutes!
O hear the voice of Your servants this day, and according to Your infinite love and wisdom answer us; according to Your riches in glory, by Christ Jesus.
First we would confess before You, O God, the sin we have committed, mourning over it. Touch each one’s heart now with tenderness that everyone of us may lament… O, Infinite Love, can we sin against You at all? How debased is our nature then! Forgive, sweet Savior, forgive sins against Your love and blood, against Your wounds and death, and give us Your Spirit, O Savior, more fully, that we may live Your life while we are here among the sons of men, for as You art, even so also are we in this world, and we wish the parallel to become more close and perfect every day!
O that everything might help us towards purity, for we crave after it; we mind the things of the Spirit, and there is groaning within us to be utterly delivered from the things of the flesh, that we may in spirit, soul, and body, be a cleansed temple fit for the indwelling of the Holy One of Israel. Lord help us, we pray, in our daily life, to be as Christ was. If we are men of sorrows, may there be that luster about our sorrow which there was about His in patience and holly submission to the Divine law. If we are men of activity may our activity be like His, for he “went about doing good.” May we seek in all ways the good of our fellow-men and the glory of our God.
- Charles Spurgeon