“Lent is a season of preparation and repentance during which we anticipate the death (Good Friday) and resurrection (Easter Sunday) of Jesus. It is this very preparation and repentance – aimed at grasping the intense significance of the crucifixion – that gives us a deep and powerful longing for the resurrection, the joy of Easter.” – Will Walker
As we walk through this season of Lent together as a church family, I will be posting a simple daily prayer of confession for you to use as a prompt for your own prayers of confession. The spiritual practice of daily confession of sin is a vital one for me. I hope these daily posts can help you form a similar practice of forsaking sin and embracing Christ’s mercy that is far, far greater than our sins!
Day 13
O Father in heaven, who didst fashion my limbs to serve Thee and my soul to follow hard after Thee, with sorrow and contrition of heart I acknowledge before Thee the faults and failures of the day that is now past….
My failure to be true even to my own accepted standards: My self-deception in face of temptation: My choosing of the worse when I know the better: O Lord, forgive. My failure to apply to myself the standards of conduct I demand of others: My blindness to the suffering of others and my slowness to be taught by my own: My complacency towards wrongs that do not touch my own case and my over-sensitiveness to those that do: My slowness to see the good in my fellows and to see the evil in myself: My hardness of heart towards my neighbors’ faults and my readiness to make allowance of my own: My unwillingness to believe that Thou hast called me to a small work and my brother to a great one: O Lord, forgive.
From John Baillie’s A Diary of Private Prayer
