PRAYER 23: CONFORMITY TO CHRIST 

You are the blessed God
Happy in yourself and source of happiness in your creatures You are my Maker, Benefactor, Proprietor, Upholder
You have sustained me, supported me, saved me, and kept me You are in every situation able to meet my needs and miseries

May I live by you, live for you, live unto you
And never be satisfied with progress in life
Unless it resembles and mimics Christ himself

May conformity to Christ’s teaching and temperament grow hourly in my life
And may I never be at ease with shallow answers to deep questions
So that I may learn dependence upon him, my meek and merciful Lord

Father, let your love constrain me to holy obedience
Let it animate my soul and render my duty as my delight
If others deem my faith folly, my gentleness infirmity, my zeal madness,
My hope delusion, my actions hypocrisy, may I rejoice to suffer for your name
Keep me walking steadfastly towards the country of everlasting delights
Towards that paradise-land which is my true inheritance

Fortify me by the strength of heaven that I may never turn back
That I may never desire false pleasures that will disappear into nothing
As I pursue my heavenly destiny by your grace

Let me be known as a servant with no aim but that of pleasing you
And seeking to love others for your sake

Let it be