Yet I Sin

I love how God works in the hearts of sinners for His glory. The revelation of a broken, bent to sin heart that is desperate and dirty is such a wonderful grace to behold. God is so merciful to show us our sin and then allows us, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to change our desires and conform more to Him. Oh the beauty of sanctification and workings of Christ in us.

I had been thinking of a song that talks about our sinful condition and our need for God and that led me to a book i have called the Valley of Vision which is a collection of Puritan Prayers. This prayer that i am about to type is so sweet to describe the goodness and holiness of God and our sinful state, i just couldn't resist typing it for all to see.

Enjoy.
sarah B.

Yet I Sin

Eternal Father,
Thou art good beyond all thought,
But i am vile, wretched, miserable, blind;
My lips are ready to confess, but my heart is slow to feel, and my ways reluctant to amend.
I bring my soul to thee;
break it, would it, bend it, mold it.
Unmask to me sin's deformity, that i may hate it, abhor it, flee from it.
My faculties have been a weapon of revolt against thee;
as a rebel i have misused my strength, and served the foul adversary of thy kingdom.
Give me grace to bewail my insensate folly, grant me to know that the way of transgressors is hard, that evil paths are wretched paths, that to depart from thee is to lose all good.
I have seen the purity and beauty of thy perfect law, the happiness of those in whose heart it reigns, the calm dignity of the walk to which it calls, yet I daily violate and contemn its precepts.
Thy loving Spirit strives within me, brings me Scripture warnings, speaks in starling providences, allures by secret whispers, yet i choose devices and desires to my own hurt, impiously resent, grieve, and provoke him to abandon me.
All these sins i mourn, lament, and for them cry pardon.
Work in me more profound and abiding repentance;
Give me the fullness of a godly grief that trembles and fears, yet ever trusts and loves, which i ever powerful, and ever confident;
Grant that through the tears of repentance i may see more clearly the brightness and glories of the saving cross.