A Prayer To Glorify God

This prayer is taken from the Morning reading for February 15th from C.H. Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening"

“Lord, help me to glorify thee;

I am poor; help me to glorify thee by contentment;

I am sick; help me to give thee honour by patience;

I have talents; help me to extol thee by spending them for thee;

I have time; Lord, help me to redeem it, that I may serve thee;

I have a heart to feel; Lord, let that heart feel no love but thine, and glow with no flame but affection for thee;

I have a head to think; Lord, help me to think of thee and for thee;

thou hast put me in this world for something; Lord, show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose:

I cannot do much; but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury;

I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.”

Morning and Evening

Since December of last year, I have been reading Charles Spurgeon's devotional "Morning and Evening." Spurgeon has two readings per day (morning and evening) in which he uses a brief passage of Scripture and provides a brief but very insightful reflection upon the text.

I highly recommend its use. Spurgeon has a way of writing which is very reminiscent of the Puritan's style of colorful and "on-spot" analogies. I can easily imagine him writing this out at his table in his study in Victorian-era London, leaving a great legacy for us today well over a century later. The text is available in print and at several sites on the Internet. One of those is at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Click here: