A Prayer For The Sabbath: Man’s Great End

Jan 12, 2025

LORD OF ALL BEING, there is one thing that deserves my greatest attention, that calls forth my fervent desire. It is that I may answer the great end for which I am made: to glorify You who has given me being, and to do all the good I can for my fellow man.


Indeed, life is not worth having if it is not improved for this noble purpose. For all our happiness consists in loving You, and being holy as You are holy.


Time is but a moment, a vapor, and all its enjoyments are fleeting blasts of wind from which nothing satisfactory can be derived. May I never fall into the tempers, vanities, sensuality, and folly of the present world. It is a place of inexpressible sorrows. A vast empty nothingness.


Give me grace to always keep in covenant with You and to reject as delusion all sinful pleasures or profits. Help me to continually know that there can be no true happiness, no fulfilling of Your purpose for me, apart from a life lived in and for the Son of Your love. Amen.

Adapted, The Valley of Vision

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