From The Valley of Vision 

"GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD" 

O LORD GOD, WHO INHABITEST ETERNITY,  

The heavens declare thy glory,  

The earth thy riches,  

The universe is thy temple;  

Thy presence fills immensity, Yet thou hast of thy pleasure created life, and communicated happiness; Thou hast made me what I am, and given me what I have; In thee I live and move and have my being;  

Thy providence has set the bounds of my habitation, and wisely administers all my affairs.  

I thank thee for thy riches to me in Jesus, for the unclouded revelation of him in thy Word, where I behold his Person, character, grace, glory, humiliation, sufferings, death, and resurrection;  

Give me to feel a need of his continual saviourhood, and cry with Job, ‘I am vile’, with Peter, ‘I perish’, with the publican, ‘Be merciful to me, a sinner’.  

Subdue in me the love of sin,  

Let me know the need of renovation as well as of forgiveness, in order to serve and enjoy thee for ever.  

I come to thee in the all-prevailing name of Jesus, with nothing of my own to plead, no works, no worthiness, no promises.  

I am often straying, often knowingly opposing thy authority, often abusing thy goodness;  

Much of my guilt arises from my religious privileges, my low estimation of them, my failure to use them to my advantage,  

But I am not careless of thy favour or regardless of thy glory;  

Impress me deeply with a sense of thine omnipresence, that thou art about my path, my ways, my lying down, my end.