Guidance and Readiness
Asks God’s word and Spirit to guide life’s journey, using the warning of the foolish virgins and the guiding pillar of fire.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
ALMIGHTY! may Thy word and its warnings, Thy saints and their experience, Thy promises and Thy reproofs, go before us and keep us in the way. Let us never be like those foolish virgins who, rising in haste to meet the Bridegroom, were turned back with the bitter words, “Too late! too late!” Do Thou, by Thy Holy Spirit, like a pillar of fire go before us, ever showing the true way; in grief, in joy, in sadness, in gloom, ever before us. That so at last, having journeyed through all this great and wide desert, we may of Thy undeserved mercy find rest.
And these things we do ask in the name of Jesus Christ.—AMEN.