We come before you this morning, through Christ Jesus, to express our entire confidence in you. We believe that you are true, and that you are the rewarder of those who diligently seek you.
Lord, forgive us that death in life, in which so many of our years were spent, when we found something in the world apart from you; and were content with the things of the hour, the vile shadows, transient gusts of things which truly are not, for you alone are all-in-all.