Prayer for today...

O God whose will conquers all, there is no comfort in anything apart from enjoying You and being engaged in Your service; You are all in all, and all enjoyments are what to me, You make them, and no more. I am well pleased with Your will, whatever it is, or should be in all respects, and if You tell me decide for myself in any affair, I would choose to refer all back to You, for You are infinitely wise and cannot go wrong, as I am in danger of doing. I rejoice to think that all things are at Your disposal, and it delights me to leave them there. Then prayer turns wholly into praise, and all I can do is to adore and bless You! What shall I give You for all Your benefits? I am caught between the two, knowing not what to do; I long to make some return, but have nothing to offer, and can only rejoice that You do all, that none in heaven or on earth shares Your honor. I can, in and of myself, do nothing to glorify Your blessed name, but I can, through grace, cheerfully surrender soul and body to You. I know that You are the Author and Finisher of faith, that the whole work of redemption is Yours alone, that every good work or thought found in me is the effect of Your Power and Grace, that Your sole motive in working in me to will and to do is for Your good pleasure! O God, it is amazing that men can talk so much about man's human power and goodness, when, if You didn't hold us back every moment, we would be devils incarnate. This, by bitter experience, You have taught me concerning myself.
Amen

(modified from THE VALLEY OF VISION - Puritan Prayers and Devotions)