Guidance Through Moral Struggle

ALMIGHTY GOD! to Whom all things belong, Whose is light and darkness, Whose is good and evil, Master of all things, Lord of all! Who hast so ordered it that life from the beginning shall be a struggle, throughout the course and even to the end; so guide and order that struggle within us, that at last what is good in us may conquer, and all evil be overcome; that all things may be brought into harmony, and God may be all in all. So do Thou guide and govern us, that every day, whatsoever betide us, some gain to better things, some more blessed joy in higher things may be ours; that so we, though but weaklings, may yet, God-guided, go from strength to strength, until at last, delivered from that burden of the flesh through which comes so much struggling, we may enter into the land of harmony and of the eternal peace. Hear us of Thy mercy, through Jesus Christ our Lord.—AMEN.