Titus, One
Oh Lord, your gospel is precious
and mysterious. Thank you that your promises are true, that we can bank our
lives on them and proclaim them to the world around us.
Please help
me to live a life that is above the reproach of the watching world. Help me to
lead my family well. May I practice self-control in my private and public life.
Give me a genuine heart for your people and for sound doctrine. May I be able
to lead and teach well your commands.
Help me oh
Lord to sift through the traditions that creep into moralism. Help me to preach
truth in love, expecting and living obedience but not placing my confidence in
it. Help me to constantly point to your mercy and grace as the motivations for
our obedience. Keep me from the legalism that so easily encroaches toward pride
and self-satisfaction. May I lovingly call it what it is, and correctively teach
your word rightly. May I guard myself and others against this wayward tendency.
Amen.
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