A Prayer - by John Baillie

For my devotions I have been using John Baillies' "A Diary of Private Prayer." My book is worn and tattered, but the prayers are indeed helpful.
This morning after meditating on the passage from "Words of Life
I prayed with the writer.
"Let me go forth, O Lord my God, to the work of another day, still surrounded by Thy loving kindnesses; still pledged to Thy loyal service, still standing in Thy strength and not my own.
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Let me today be a Christian not only in my words, but also in my deeds:
Let me follow bravely in the footsteps of my Master wherever they may lead:
Let me be hard and stern with myself:
Let there be no self- pity or self-indulgence in my life today:
Let my thinking be clean, my speech frank and open and my action be courageous and decisive.
I would pray, O Lord, not only for myself but for all the household to which I belong, for all my friends and fellow workers, beseeching Thee to include them all in Thy fatherly regard. I pray also:-
for all who will today be faced by any great decision:
for all who today will be engaged in settling affairs of moment in the lives of men and nations.
for all who are moulding public opinion in our time;
for all who write what other people read;
for all who are holding aloft the lamp of truth in a world of ignorance and sin;
for all whose hands are worn with too much toil and for the unemployed whose hands today fall idle:
for those who have not where to lay their head.
O Christ my Lord, who for my sake and my brethren's dids't forgo all earthly comfort and fulness, forbid that I should ever again live unto myself. Amen