24 November 2017
Rid us, O Lord
Rid us, O Lord, of the arrogant
delusion that our age is harder to live in,
harder to live through and be
decent in than any age that ever was, that
we are being tried as
our fathers never were, that we have more excuse
for our neurotic
screaming, our pitiful muddling, our eroded standards,
our
sentimental slobbering, our pinching terror at the shadows of the
future cast upon our way than any men who ever walked beneath Your
heaven and on Your earth.
Teach us, O Lord, by Your sane and
steadying Word that we stand before
You as we always stood, living
of Your grace and moving toward Your
judgment, that the Bomb
and the terrible technological trifles of our time
have not altered
the great plain, steady fact that You are Lord and have not
changed the
blessed time of Your coming as a thief in the night.
MARTIN H. FRANZMANN, Prayer for Joy, P 51.
