And he spoke of his sorrow in
verse 2. I was done with silence. I held
my peace even from good, and my sorrow was stirred. My heart
was hot within me while I was meditating, amusing the fire
burned. Then I spake with my tongue,
Lord, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what
it is, that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made
my days as a handbreadth, my age is as nothing before thee.
Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Surely,
every man walks in a vain show. They are disquieted in vain,
upset, disturbed. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth
not who shall gather them. What wait I for? My hope is in
thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions. Make me not the reproach of the
foolish. In Psalms chapter 90 and verse 1, this is Moses, a
prayer of David, the great king of Israel, and this is the prayer
of Moses, the great prophet, man that God knew face to face.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before
the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hast formed the
earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you
are God. You turn man to destruction and
saith, Return, you children of men, for a thousand years in
your sight, or as but yesterday when it's passed, and as a watch
in the night. You carry them away as with a
flood, They are as asleep in the morning. They are like grass
which groweth up. In the morning it flourishes
and groweth up, and in the evening it is cut down and it withers.
For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath we are troubled.
You have set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins, in the
light of your countenance. For all our days are passed away
in your wrath. We spend our years in sighing
as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore
years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourscore
years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon
cut off and we fly away. Who knows the power of your anger? Even according to your fear,
so is your wrath. So teach us to number our days
that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. Return, O Lord, how
long, and let it repent you concerning your servants. O, satisfy us
early with your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our
days. Make us glad according to the
days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we
have seen evil. Let Thy work appear unto Thy
servants, and Your glory unto their children. And let the beauty
of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our
hands upon us. Yea, the work of our hands, establish
Thou it. I want to just look mainly at
the request that these two great men of God asked I won't limit
it to that, but mainly I wanted to look at these requests and
some things surrounding these requests. Both of them prayed
this prayer. David's prayer was this. He said,
Lord, help me to number my days. Help me to know my end. Make me to know my end. Think
of what a request that is. Make me to know my end, the measure
of my days, what it is that I may know how frail I am. And Moses'
request was this, teach me to number my days. Teach us to number
our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. And as I have
often thought upon these prayers, and looked at these Psalms, and
you notice that the whole attitude of these men was one of sorrow. Their hearts was one of sorrow. They both were looking around
them and saw the sufferings of humanity, the uncertainty of
life, sorrows and the sadness of their life. And David said,
when I did that, my sorrow was stirred in me. I saw what was
going on in the world and humanity. I saw what was going on with
me. I saw what was going on in me. And he said, my sorrow was
stirred. I tried to keep quiet about it
all. But he said, my sorrow was stirred within me. And Moses
did the same thing when he looked around and considered humanity
and its trouble. And he said, all the toil that
it takes just to live in this life, all the strength that it
takes just day by day, it zaps you just to live in this world. It's full of sorrows. And he
said, we grow old and it ends and we just fly away, just fly
away. Their hearts were filled with
sorrow over all of this and more that you can read in these Psalms.
But isn't that a good time to pray? What better time to pray
than when the heart is filled with sorrow? When a heart is
broken up with a bitter, woeful cup, then is the time to go to
Christ all alone. When a heart is sorrowful, when
it's heavy, come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy
laden. What are you heavy laden about?
He doesn't say, does He? He doesn't say. But your heart
is filled with sorrow, and it's heavy. And if it's out of this sorrow
and out of this heaviness that we're caused to seek the Lord,
then it's good, ain't it? It's a good sorrow. Worldly sorrow
may lead to death. But I tell you, any sorrow that
would lead us to pray and lead us to open our hearts up to the
throne of grace, to our God, that's a good sorrow. That's
a good sorrow. Their hearts was filled with
sorrow. Sorrow is a good thing if it
leads us to pray. The wise man said it like this,
it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house
of feasting. And the living, he said, will
lay this to the heart. If they be wise, if the living
be wise, sometimes he knows that sadness in the heart is better
than feasting. The heart of the wise is in the
house of the mourning. The heart of the fools is in
the house of murder. That's a good time to pray, when
the heart is sad. Teach me. Make me to know. And this was said during the
time of their sadness. But something else here about
these prayers of these two great men, They knew this, that God was
a God to be prayed to. God is a God who hears and answers
prayer. He's a God who would have us
to pray. The Lord Jesus came all the way
to this world, sin of the Father, and one of the reasons He came,
to teach us that men should always pray. and not to faint. Who should
pray? Men should pray. Everybody should
pray. Here's these two great men, and
they were men who said, Lord, teach me. Lord, show me. That's the way to pray in. We
don't come bragging about what we know. We don't come boasting. We come begging. And we come
in faith. We may come as a fool. That's
a good way to come. If a man thinks he knows anything,
he knows nothing as he ought to know. We should go this way. Lord,
I'm a fool, but You can teach me. I am so blind, my understanding
so darkened, but You can make me to know. You can show me These
were men who did not pretend to know anything, but they went
to Him that was able to teach them. Aren't you glad, brothers
and sisters, we have a God like that? You don't have to take
anything with you. Everything that He requires is
there, and He can teach us. God is able to teach us. I had a young lady who came to
my door one day, and she asked me a question. She said, do you
think God will hear my prayer? She said someone had told her
that the Lord didn't hear the prayer of lost people. That's
amazing what people tell us, ain't it? There was a man who stood in
the temple one day, and if he wasn't lost, I don't know who
was. And yet he said, God, be merciful to me a sinner. And
the one who knows the hearts of all men said, that man went
down to his house having been heard. He was justified. Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved. Seek ye the Lord while he may
be found, Call ye upon Him. And if you'll read the context,
that's written to the wicked, to the unrighteous. I think I
told you a story one time, this true story about this preacher.
Back during the days when the old preachers, the old pastors,
rode a circuit. And he just had the opportunity
to be in one congregation about once a month. And there was this
young lady in the congregation that was very flippant. She didn't
take the worship of God seriously. And before leaving one day, he
said, young lady, I want you to do me a favor. I want you
to get off by yourself, and I want you to ask God to show you yourself. And he came back the next month,
and she wasn't there at the worship service. And he inquired of her
family where she was, and they said, oh, she's not been here
now for a few weeks. She's very low. She's staying
at home. And he asked to go see her. And
he went and seen her. And he said, young lady, what's
your problem? And she said, I asked God to
show me myself. And he heard my prayer. And she
said, I'm unworthy to be among his saints. And he says, young lady, I've
got another request. I want you to ask God to show
you the Savior. And he said next time he came
to the worship service, she was there rejoicing in the Lord. Does God hear prayer? Yes, He's
a God-hearing, God-answering prayer. And if we learn nothing
else from these great men, this psalmist, this sweet psalmist,
and this great prophet, they believe that. And they taught
other people to pray, to pray. Oh, the ignorant must be taught. And we're all ignorant. And what
better place to learn than from our God? Teach me. Show me. Something else here in this request,
and can you imagine the courage Can you imagine the nerve of
a man who would honestly seek the Lord and say, make me to
know my end? Can you imagine that? Not the
date of my death. Not how I'm going to die. Not
the conditions that surround it. But make me to know my spiritual
condition. These men believed in a world
to come. They didn't believe that you
died and that was it or that you were annihilated. They believed
in a hell and they believed in a heaven. They believed in everlasting
torment and everlasting joy. They believed that a man went
to be with the devil or he went to be with Christ. This man believed
that. And yet he had the courage to
pray, Lord, make me to know how it will be with me when the end
comes. Ain't that a courageous prayer?
He was saying, I don't want to be deceived. My soul is too precious
to be indifferent about this? To live in doubt about it all?
Some people tell us that we can't know. So there's no use to be
concerned about it. We can't know until the end comes
and we either lift our eyes up in torment or we're with the
Lord in glory. But we can't know. Somebody should
have told David that. Because he went to the one who
does know. And he said, Lord, make me to
know. However it is. However it is,
I want to know. Brothers and sisters, if I'm
lost, I want to know it now. And if I'm saved, I want to live
in the assurance and light of it now. Lord, make me to know
a serious man. who realizes the value of his
eternity-bound soul will surely find the courage enough to say,
Lord, I've got to know. This has got to be settled. And
there's a spirit, brothers and sisters, there's a sovereign
spirit. The Spirit of God, the Spirit
of His Son, that not only is able to save us, but He's able
to make us know it. He's able to bear witness with
our spirit that things are well. And I've got to know that. I've
got to know it. One way or the other, I've got
to know it. One man said, Things that are
worse than being lost. One, he said, was being lost
and not know it. And the second, he says, is to
die lost. If I'm lost, I want to know it.
There's something that can be done about it. The Lord came
to seek and to save that which was lost. And David had the courage to
face it. How many, how many people cannot muster up the courage
to pray as this man prayed? The cowards about it all. That's
why lost men won't pray about this. That's why they won't face
the truth of it. Oh, if you can just under God
get a man or get a woman to begin to seek the Lord about this,
Lord, make me to know my end!" But they don't want to know,
do they? That's sad and an awful truth, but they don't want to
know. The consequences are too dreadful. Ain't this a heavy
subject? The Lord Jesus, when He was teaching
us to pray, He said we should always pray and not to faint. And one version said, we should
always pray and not turn cowards. Don't be a coward when you pray.
David wasn't. Lord, make me to know my end. Notice something else about these
requests. Both of these men, you'll notice
something about their requests. Moses prayed like this, teach
us to number our days. Make me, David said, to know
my end, the measure of my days. Isn't it very telling that when
the Lord teaches us to measure our life, it's never in decades. It's never in years. It's never
in months. It's always days. Teach us to
number our days. And here in Moses' prayer in
verse 5 and 6, the last portion of verse 5, Moses likens a man's
life to just one day. He likens it here to the grass. He says in the morning it flourishes. What is that but youth? We're
born into this world and we're so lively and independent, full
of youth. We flourish like the grass. And
then he says, it grows up. It groweth up. There we are in
our adulthood, our middle age. We've grown up. And then he says,
here's the evening. What happens in the evening?
We grow old. and we're cut down and we wither. In one day, he said, David said,
you have made my days as a handbreadth. That's not very broad, is it? Just the span of your palm. And my age is as nothing before
you, he said, compared to you, the everlasting God. What's our
age, brothers and sisters, compared to the history of this world?
It's just a speck. It's just a dot. It's hardly
anything. How would you measure our days
compared to the eternal God who is from everlasting? We can't
measure it. It's nothing. James said, what
is your life? It's not like a vapor at all. No, he said it is a vapor. that
it's here just for a little while, and it vanishes away. It's gone. Man that's born to woman, he's
of a few days. Job said don't even measure it
in years, just days. Just days. And then he vanishes
away. How would you and I live if we
lived in this reality? How would this affect our thinking?
How would it affect our priorities? How would it affect our preparation
for eternity? If God taught us, as He taught
these two great men, to measure our life in days. David and Moses' request was
just a little different. David prayed this, "'Make me
to know the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am.'
Moses said, "'Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our
hearts to wisdom.' But the end of these prayers
were the same. "'Make me to know how frail I
am, that I may apply my heart to wisdom.' They go together. They have the same end. Make
me to know my end. Make me to know the measure of
my days, that I may know how frail I am. You mean we don't
know? Here was a wise man. He was a
king. Here was a great prophet. And
you find them on their face praying, make me to know. Don't you know? We don't know, do we? I said
it just the other day. The reality of how frail we are. The reality of us growing old
and dying. It escapes us. We can't get a
hold of this. I told you about me going through
the cemetery. I walked through the cemetery. I like to be among the dead.
And I hope God will open my heart to make it a reality. Look there
on those great stones and underneath them. That's how frail I am. How many
of us have talked to somebody on their deathbed, and yet they
were planning their future in this world? We buried my sister-in-law
just last Monday. Not long before that, my sisters
went down to visit her. And there she laid, so swiveled
up. Somebody else changing her diaper. Just a while to live in this
world, gone from a healthy, strong, energetic woman Always going
and doing. Always so full of energy. And
now she laid there. I didn't even recognize her when
I saw her. Swivel up to 70 or so pounds. And my sister says when they
left her, she was planning what she was going to do the next
time they came. And they never saw her again.
Is that the way we are? I told the folks there at the funeral,
I said, you know how frail you are? Then come up here and look
in this casket. That's how frail we are. But
we plan our lives on our deathbed, and we're planning our lives.
Why? I believe you're going to die,
but I don't believe I'm going to die. Do you believe you're
going to die today? Nobody does. The baby said, Lord,
make me to know it. Make me to know it. Make me to
know that shortly I'm going to leave all the things that I've
accumulated, and I'm going to leave all my associations in
this world. I'm going to leave a naked body
for somebody else to clothe, a swivel up, lifeless body, and
I'm going out into my long home. Make me to know how frail that
I am. Moses' prayer. was to the same
end. Teach us to number our days that
we may apply our hearts to wisdom. But these men were already wise. The Lord was answering their
prayer even while they were praying it. That's an amazing thing,
brothers and sisters, about prayer. Sometime when you're praying
about something, He's already answered it. Here were men praying
about wisdom. Here was men praying to know.
And yet in their prayer, you'd see, the Lord has already answered. For you see such wisdom in their
prayer. David said, make me to know how
frail I am. Make me to know the measure of
my days. And in the very next verse, he says it, you've made
my days as a handbrand. My ages as nothing before you. And notice the wisdom of which
this man prayed. Thou hast made my days as a hand
breath. Thou hast made my days. They're few, he said. They're
short. But you've made them. You've
made my days. You've made me for those days
and you've made those days for me. as though I was the only
man in this world. You brought me into this world.
You're my Creator. And you gave me these days. You know something, brothers
and sisters? You know why every man is to live to God? The chief end of every man is
to love God, to live to Him, and enjoy Him forever. And you
know why that is? Because God is His Creator. We're not our own. We're His. We're His. The prophet said, in Him we live.
In Him we move. we have our being. He gives to
all life and breath and all things. He gives us fruitful seasons. He fills our hearts with gladness. Who does this? Our Creator, the
One who has made us and made us for these days that He gives
us. Every good gift, a natural gift
or spiritual gift, comes down from Him. We talk about second
causes. And that's fine. Second causes. We should be careful. I have
no idea what that is. It's probably the organ. The
organ. Well, maybe it can start playing
itself. Nobody else around here can play. We talk about second cause. We
talk about exercising. We talk about eating. We talk
about being careful. But I tell you the first cause. The first cause is not anything
but God Himself. It's in Him. It's by Him. By His power. By His providence. By His rule, by Him, we live
and move and have our being. That's what David recognized,
the wisdom God has given me these days. But Moses even went farther
than that in his prayer in chapter 9 in verse 3. He says not only
do we live at God's appointment, but we die at His appointment. See what he says in verse 3?
Thou turnest men to powder, You turn them to the dust. How does
He do that? With a word. He says, Return
ye children of men. Return ye children of men. How easy God can take our life
from us. All He has to do is say it. Return,
you children of men. I'll take you out of the dust.
You're going to return to it. When? When I say it. When I say
it. I tell you, He may do it out
on the highway somewhere. He may do it by some violent
act of nature. He may do it by some horrible
disease that wastes us away. He may do it in the stillness
of night while we're asleep. But we die at God's appointment.
And all he has to do is just say it. Return. Return. And what happens? They return.
Irresistible. Unavoidable. At a word. God can't do anything, they tell
us, except we let Him. Well, you try to live one more
moment after His appointment comes. You try to resist it when
He says, return. What weapons are you going to
use to fight in that warfare? He comes into a dark room. He
comes to the heart. And He says, return. And what
happens? You're gone. You're gone. No second cause is available.
No means. No angels to help you. Nobody
to overrule His verdict, His Word. It's the power of the King. And He just speaks. That's all
He has to do. He just speaks. Return. And you're gone. You hear me and you hear lost
people talking about this all the time. Well, when your time
comes, we hear all kinds of phrases. They don't believe a word of
that. They don't believe a word of that. A man that believes
that God gives him his days, and God has appointed the very
moment of his death, that his utter being, his eternal being,
hangs upon nothing but this brickle thread, the voice of God, And
the man that believes that in his heart and goes on in utter
disregard of the living God, he doesn't believe that. He goes
on without any reverence for Him who holds this being in his
hand, he don't believe that. Here was some men that believed
that. And where do you find them? On
their faces in prayer. Believe in men or pray in men. And something else we find here.
And here Moses in verse 7 through verse 9, boy, he gets at the
very heart of the problem. He looks around him and he sees
what's going on around him in humanity. And he sees all the
devastation. He sees all the violence. He sees all the heartbreak and
the tears and death. He doesn't hide his face from
it. He's not like they tell us in ostrich, that because he can't
see the evil, he thinks there's no evil there. He faces this. He says, what's wrong in humanity? Something is wrong. And he faces it. And boy, look
at what he says. He gets right down to the very
heart of the matter, the root of the matter. He says in verse
7, We are consumed by that anger and by your wrath with trouble. Moses seems to speak on the behalf
of humanity. He takes his place in this world
as just being a fallen son of Adam. And he says the world will
not face this problem. The world even denies it. But
he says here is the root. Here is the whole problem. Here
is the sadness. Here is the sorrow. Here is the
devastation. Here is why we live uncertain
and die in sorrow. Here is what it is all about.
We are consumed by God's anger and by His wrath. We are terrified. How in the world could that be
said? We are told on every hand that God loves everybody. Aren't
we told that? That God just loves everybody
and He just so overwhelms people and that He just can't hardly
help Himself? Well, it's not so much I doubt
that as it is I doubt that's going to help this world to be
told that. We don't hear much of this, do
we? God is angry. were being consumed by His wrath? Why did my sister-in-law swivel
up to nothing and die in agony? There's but one answer. God's
anger. God's wrath. Why is war going on everywhere? Why is there starvation? Why
does the earth refuse to produce fruit in a lot of countries?
God is angry. God's wrath is stirred up. Brothers
and sisters, do we believe that? Well, how could that be said?
Why? Well, look at what He says in verse 8. Thou hast said our
iniquities before thee. Our secret. Our secret. He doesn't say sins. That's supplied
by our translators. And that's wonderful. That's
what it means. But He just says our secret in the light of His
countenance. That's why God is angry. If I
represented a God to you this morning that was not angry with
sin, I'd be representing a God to you that does not exist in
this Bible. What's the trouble in humanity
today? It's this. It's between humanity
and God. Humanity has sinned and God is
angry. That's the whole problem. And
committees won't fix that. Leagues of nations won't fix
that. At best, they try to deal with
some of the symptoms. They cannot effect a remedy,
because humanity cannot rid itself of its sins. And until it rids
itself of its sins in a just way, it cannot deliver itself
from the wrath of God. And every remedy that it tries,
this mocks it. And it's tried a bunch of them,
hasn't it? Thou hast said our iniquities
before thee, O God, have mercy. If God marks iniquities, who
could stand? Secret sins that nobody knows
about, done in the heart, done in the motives, in the thoughts,
in the attitudes. But God says, I hate it, and
I'm going to damn you for it. I am angry. My anger is stirred
up. I'm going to whip my glittering
sword, and my hand's going to take hold on justice, and I'm
going to punish you for all eternity. And the hell has started here. What's wrong with society? I
see nothing wrong with it, they tell us. Is something wrong? You mean it's always been like
this? This is the way God planned us to be? I don't think so, brothers
and sisters. God made us holy. He made us
good. And we sought out all these inventions. And now we sin. We disobey Him. We lie. We cheat. We steal. We deceive. And it's all against
God. And He's angry. All our days are passed away
in wrath and we spend our years just sighing. And David said,
nothing helps us. Nothing helps us. We're just
quieted in vain. We roar and we complain and we
cry and we weep over it all. But it's all vain. It's just
vain. We have no remedy for it, brothers
and sisters. No remedy. Society has no remedy
for its chief problem, its iniquity and the wrath of God upon it. Aren't you thankful he didn't
stop there? Aren't you thankful that he doesn't cease yet to
pray? No wonder he's sad. No wonder
these men are heavy hearted. I am too when I look around,
aren't you? But He makes four requests. He
says these four things. Look in verse 14. Oh, satisfy us early with Thy
mercies. Can God satisfy a man? Can God
satisfy a man who is sad? A man who is overwhelmed with
sorrows? Moses said, yes. Well, what is
it? He said, it's your mercy. I will
have mercy. Then have mercy upon me, and
that will satisfy me. Mercy is a so satisfying thing. God's wrath is upon me. I'm an
awful sinner. What do I need? Mercy. Without mercy, brothers and sisters,
no man can be satisfied. I don't want anybody's pity.
I do. God pity me. Look upon me with
eyes of sympathy. When you look upon me in my awful
need as the worst criminal that ever lived upon your earth, let
it draw out from your heart, saving mercies. I want to obtain
mercies. Nothing else will do us any good. If we get what we deserve, hell
will be our long home. If we get what God owes us, He'll
crush us forever and ever under His awful wrath. Oh, but there's mercy with the
Lord. He's of tender mercy, sure mercy for the most wicked in
this world. He's not seeking your contribution.
He's not seeking my contribution. He said, I didn't come for a
sacrifice. I come to show mercy. Oh, isn't that a soul-satisfying
thing to think about? In time of wrath, when you're
meditating your iniquities and thinking just any time His wrath
might fall upon you, and then He manifests mercies. Paul never could get over that.
He never did get over it. I obtain mercy. I obtain mercy. And he said secondly this in
verse 16, and this is a wonderful thing. Let thy work appear unto thy
servants, and thy glory unto their children. Let your work
appear Well, he begins this prayer and he's so sad. But now, he
said, there's something that will make me glad. You can make
me glad. You can make me rejoice. Let
Your work appear unto me. What work is that? Well, it's
the work of Jesus Christ. It's the work God sent Him to
do. My need is to do the will of Him that sent me and to finish
His work. I wonder if those apostles, when
they heard the Lord Jesus pray there in John 17, if they understood
what He was saying. I have finished the work. What
did He do? He went about doing good. He
went about doing the will of His Father. He obeyed His Father. He pleased His Father in everything. The Father looked down from heaven
and He said, You are My Son and I love you. Ain't that what He
said? I love you. My law is in your heart, and
you've honored it. You've obeyed it. You love Me
perfectly." That's what he said. And the son said, I've finished
the work. And he says it again on the cross, hanging there in
his nakedness and shame. What was he doing there? What
was he doing on that cross? He was dealing with these two
things, brothers and sisters. He was dealing with our iniquities. And He was dealing with the wrath
of God upon them. And what had happened, God had
taken the sins of all His people and He had put them in the body
of His Son. And He was burying those sins
in His heart, in His soul, in His body. And God forsook Him
and God smote Him. But you know something? He took
them all away. He took them all away. The iniquities
are gone. There is no more wrath. But you can't see that if He
don't show you. You'll argue about it. You'll
go all your lifetime in doubt about it until He shows you. And nothing will satisfy the
heart. Nothing will deliver the screaming
conscience until God shows a man his own work, what Christ has
done, and that it's finished. Sin has been atoned for. Wrath
has been led away with. There is no more. Behold the
Lamb of God. The last two things is this.
Look what he says in the last portion of verse 17. In the first portion of verse
17. Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us. Ain't that amazing? Let the beauty
of the Lord be upon me. You remember when the prodigal
returned? The Father said, bring the best
robe and put on Him. The best robe we have in our
house, you bring it and you put it on Him. What was that? That's Jesus Christ Himself.
Put you on the Lord Jesus Christ. Put Him on. Isn't He beautiful? He's the prettiest thing God's
got. A beautiful, beautiful Savior. His obedience is beautiful. His
work is beautiful. His righteousness is beautiful.
His person and His work put Him on. What a robe. What a robe. What a covering. When I stand before the throne
dressed in beauty not my own. What is that? That's Christ.
Jesus Christ. God doesn't see our sins anymore.
Isn't that wonderful? He doesn't see the filth that
we see anymore. What does He see? His own beauty. The beauty of His own dear Son. Oh, Moses said, let the beauty
of our Lord be upon us. What a request. What a request. All He says lastly is this, Establish thou the work of our
hands. In the last portion of verse
17, Yea, establish the work of our hands. These things make
us happy, brothers and sisters. To obtain mercy, saving mercy,
that makes us glad. To see that Jesus Christ has
bore the wrath and put it away, atoned for all our iniquities,
paid a price that we couldn't pay. That makes us glad. When
we see He has this beautiful garment, this robe of salvation
He clothes us with, Himself, it makes us glad. And when He
accepts what we do, the works of our hands, O Lord, establish
me in the faith of this, in the truth of these things we've been
talking about. Give us a heart to love. Give
us a heart to follow. Give us a heart to work and worship
and serve. And then accept all we do. When
we pray, hear us and answer us. When we meditate, let it be sweet. When we speak, give us a hearing.
And when we work, let all our works be accepted in your sight.
Establish the work of our hands. Make us successful. in your kingdom,
and then we'll be happy. We'll be happy. Oh, what a prayer. Have you and
I begun to pray? Hardly.