02/04/2022 Quickening Our Mental Faculties

Father bless You for the mighty way in which You deal with our manifold confusions, so that You establish in us reason, and wit, and understanding. Surely it is most needful to obtain understanding; it is gracious indeed to possess wittiness; and by means of reason we can be propelled into every good thing. In these three things then, help us, O saviour, so that we may become a people of praise, and put off the shame that so easily entangles and snares us by the fruit of our lips and the acts that we wrongfully think right.

May each of us, in our uniqueness and peculiarity, receive from You particular and personal reasoning, wittiness, and understanding to accomplish the godly tasks set before us. As You help us in our frailties and refine us as silver, may you also sharpen, quicken and polish us. It is noted in Your Holy Writ that a sword is sharpened so that it may cut through bone, and also polished so that it glitters. O saviour, forge us into an instrument worthy of Your work; labour over the manifest nature of us so that we are incisive and bright, help us to reflect Your creation even as we divide it rightly.

So do we pray, knowing You to be the strong consolation by being the entire answer to our needs. Lord, hear us and use us according to the wisdom of your purposes. Amen.

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“Gladden the soul of Your servant, for to You, O lord, do I lift up my soul”
-Psalm 86:4

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