O Lord, our Heavenly Father

O Lord, our Heavenly Father

O Lord, our Heavenly Father, by whose good providence we are spared from day to day—enable us to come this night into Your presence, with hearts filled with gratitude and thankfulness for all Your mercies.

We would be deeply humbled on account of our unworthiness.

What are we—that we should be permitted to take Your name into our polluted lips?

We have sinned—what shall we say unto You, O preserver and Redeemer of men?

We have erred and strayed from Your ways like lost sheep.

We have followed too much the devices and the desires of our own hearts unto evil.

We have been rebellious, and wayward, and selfish, and unthankful.

We have been living in the enjoyment of countless blessings without any due acknowledgment of Your giving hand.

Your kindness has too often been abused, Your grace resisted.

We have been worshiping and serving the creature more than the Creator, who is God over all, blessed forevermore.

Lord, we flee anew to the clefts of the Smitten Rock —hide us there, from that wrath and everlasting condemnation which these our manifold sins have justly merited.

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