A Prayer for the Lord’s Day, January 18 (based on Psalm 17)

“O GOOD LORD, the only searcher of men’s hearts, howsoever we are compassed about on all sides with infinite dangers, yet we beseech thee to show forth to us thy favour and thy good will, without which we should immediately perish. Suffer not, O Lord, that our hearts be bent on things earthly, but that we may follow thy commandments, and ever aspire to the heavenly bliss which Jesus Christ, thy Son, has acquired for us by his own blood. AMEN.”

– Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 51.