{"id":76,"date":"2010-04-03T21:09:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T01:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=76"},"modified":"2010-04-03T21:09:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T01:09:36","slug":"an-easter-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/04\/03\/an-easter-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"An Easter Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O LORD,<\/p>\n<p>I marvel that thou shouldst become incarnate, be crucified, dead, and buried.<\/p>\n<p>The sepulchre calls forth my adoring wonder, for it is empty and thou art risen; the four-fold gospel attests it, the living witnesses prove it, my heart&#8217;s experience knows it.<\/p>\n<p>Give me to die with thee that I may rise to new life, for I wish to be as dead and buried to sin, to selfishness, to the world; that I might not hear the voice of the charmer, and might be delivered from his lusts.<\/p>\n<p>O Lord, there is much ill about me &#8211; crucify it, much flesh within me &#8211; mortify it.<\/p>\n<p>Purge me from selfishness, the fear of man, the love of approbation, the shame of being thought old-fashioned, the desire to be cultivated or modern.<\/p>\n<p>Let me reckon my old life dead because of crucifixion, and never feed it as a living thing.<\/p>\n<p>Grant me to stand with my dying Saviour, to be content to be rejected, to be willing to take up unpopular truths,\u00a0 and to hold fast despised teachings until death.<\/p>\n<p>Help me to be resolute and Christ-contained.<\/p>\n<p>Never let me wander from the path of obedience to thy will.<\/p>\n<p>Strengthen me for the battles ahead. Give me courage for all the trials, and grace for all the joys.<\/p>\n<p>Help me to be a holy, happy person, free from every wrong desire, from everything contrary to thy mind.<\/p>\n<p>Grant me more and more of the resurrection life: may it rule me, may I walk in its power, and be strengthened through its influence.<\/p>\n<p><em>From the Valley of Vision, page 172<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION O LORD, I marvel that thou shouldst become incarnate, be crucified, dead, and buried. The sepulchre calls forth my adoring wonder, for it is empty and thou art risen; the four-fold gospel attests it, the living witnesses prove it, my heart&#8217;s experience knows it. 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