O Lord Jesus, deepen in us our knowledge of you. You have made the first lines of your likeness upon our character; go on with this work of sacred art, until we are like you in all respects. We wish that we had greater power in private prayer, that we were more often wrestling with the covenant angel.
We would that the Word of God were more sweet to us, more intensely precious—that we had a deeper hunger and thirst after it. Oh, that our knowledge of the truth were more clear, and our grip of it more steadfast. Teach us, O Lord, to know the reason of the hope that is in us, and to be able to defend the faith against all comers. Plough deep in us, great Lord; and let the roots of your grace strike into the roots of our being, until it shall be no longer I that live, but “Christ that lives in me.”