lest the wily serpent should
sneak in by Henry Law. Today we especially commend our
wicked and deceitful hearts to your watchful care. We know their
treachery. We cannot keep them. Guard their
every portal lest the wily serpent should sneak in. give us quick
discernment of His deadly arts. If He approaches us as an angel
of light, may we detect the bold disguise and bid Him be gone. Holy Spirit, so uncloak the empty
vanity of all earthly things, that no conformity to its baubles
may bespatter us with mire. Utterly transform us by the renewing
of our minds. May our lips be as well-tuned
cymbals, sweetly sounding your praise. May a halo of heavenly
mindedness sparkle around us. We are invited to precious delights. The banqueting house of Your
Word is wide open. The voice of the heavenly spouse
calls to us, eat, oh friends, drink, yes, drink abundantly,
oh beloved. Eat that which is good and let
your souls delight themselves in fatness. Quicken us to arise and come
apart and regale ourselves amid the rich refreshment of gospel
promises. May we sit down under our Lord's
shadow with great delight, and may we find His fruit sweet to
our taste.