Ask to turn from selfishness, know Christ more closely and practice his teaching with joy in daily work.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
Our Father, this world is Thy world, and this day is Thy renewed gift of opportunity to learn life’s lesson more perfectly. We need clearer insight into Thy designs, that we may loathe every form of selfishness, and love devotion. Give us to know the Christ more intimately, and in the strength of His apprehended presence help us to employ this day in practising the holy principles He taught. Assist us this morning to have, and throughout this day to keep, such an attitude of glad co-operation with Him, that work shall be shot through and through with joy in anticipation of its glorious result. So may this day be to us a time of real soul expansion; a wooing and a winning of that which is highest, even a purer, noble character. In Jesus’ name. Amen.