Wednesday Prayer

Another prayer today from Joseph Baillie's little book, A Diary of Private Prayer, just an excerpt from Day 4 Morning: 

Almighty and eternal God, Thou art hidden from my sight; Thou art beyond the understanding of my mind; Thy thoughts are not as my thoughts; Thy ways are past finding out. 

Yet hast Thou breathed Thy Spirit into my life;
Yet hast Thou formed my mind to seek Thee;
Yet hast Thou inclined my heart to love Thee;
Yet hast Thou made me restless for the rest that is in Thee;
Yet hast Thou planted within me a hunger and thirst that make me dissatisfied with all the joys of
       earth.  . . .

O Thou who alone knowest what lies before me this day, grant that in every hour of it I may stay close to Thee.  Let me be in the world, yet not of it.  Let me use this world without abusing it.  If I buy, let me be as though I possessed not.  If I have nothing, let me be as though possessing all things.  Let me to-day embark on no undertaking that is not in line with Thy will for my life, nor shrink from any sacrifice which Thy will may demand. . . . For my Lord Christ's sake. 

Amen.