Your Gracious Keeping By John
McDuff Anew I commend myself to your gracious keeping this
day. Guide me by your counsel. Guard
me from temptation. Lead me in the everlasting way. May every unloving thought, every
unworthy aim and aspiration give place to what is pure and unselfish
and kind. May every idol that would usurp
your place be overthrown. May no corrupt thought pollute
my heart, no unworthy utterance defile my tongue, no unholy action
stain my life. preserve me from the world's
insinuating, seductive power, and from the treachery and deceitfulness
of my own evil heart. Whatever is my dominant sin,
ease or pleasure, pride or passion, covetousness or ambition, enable
me, by the promised help of Your Spirit, to subdue it, nailing
it to the Redeemer's cross. Defend me from every snare and
danger which may beset my path. Be my shield in prosperity, My
refuge in adversity, My comforter in sorrow, My light in darkness,
My hope in death, My defender and vindicator in judgment, My
joy and portion through all eternity. This Puritan devotional has been
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