Ask to seek goodness, act rightly and receive Christ with humility and purpose.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
O Lord, our God, so great is our life we may find that for which we look, —the good or the bad. Send us into this day with eyes searching for the good. Beholding it may we admire it and admiring it we shall become like it changed into the same image from character to character by the Spirit. May we be more concerned to do right than not to do wrong. Save us from a humility that is weakness and give us largeness of life without pride. May we want nothing so much as opportunity,—opportunity to be, to do, to suffer. May we not strive for bigness but for fitness and may our reception of the Christ be our forgiveness and our salvation for His name’s sake. In Jesus’ name. Amen.