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March 17th, 2020

3/17/2020

 
One of the treasures in the church is a collection of Puritan prayers. They had a God given gift for channeling their hearts into words. One prayer that speaks to some of what some of us may be feeling at the moment is the following one:                                                                     Peril
SOVEREIGN COMMANDER OF THE UNIVERSE
I am sadly harassed by doubts, fears, unbelief,
                In a felt spiritual darkness.
My heart is full of evil surmising and disquietude,
                and I cannot act faith at all.
My heavenly pilot has disappeared,
                and I have lost my hold on the rock of ages;
I sink in deep mire beneath storms and waves,
                in horror and distress unutterable.
Help me, O Lord,
                to throw myself absolutely and wholly on thee,
                for better, for worse, without comfort, and all but hopeless.
Give me peace of soul, confidence, enlargement of mind,
                morning joy that comes after night heaviness;
Water my soul richly with divine blessings;
Grand that I may welcome thy humbling in private
                so that I might enjoy thee in public;
Give me a mountain top as high as the valley is low.
Thy grace can melt the worst sinner, and I am as vile as he;
Yet thou hast made me a monument of mercy,
                a trophy of redeeming power;
In my distress let me not forget this,
All-wise God,
Thy never-failing providence orders every event,
                sweetens every fear,
                reveals evil’s presence lurking in seeming good,
                brings real good out of seeming evil,
                makes unsatisfactory what I set my heart upon,
                to show me what a short-sighted creature I am,
                and to teach me to live by faith upon thy blessed self.
Out of my sorrow and night
                give me the name Naphtali-“satisfied with favor”-
                help me to love thee as thy child,
                and to walk worthy of my heavenly pedigree.
As we consider all that is going on around us, let us remember our heavenly pedigree nor that God's love and providence is able to sweeten our fears. We 

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