classic Saturday

From Devotional Classics, this week's devotion was written by Lancelot Andrews (1555-1626) Andrews was a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, an apologist for King James 1, and was one of the scholars who was appointed in 1607 to prepare the King James version of the Bible. He's known for his ability to write prayers that "lift the mind up to God".

From his Private Devotions:

"O Lord, be my God, and let there be no other before you. Grant me to worship you and serve you according to your commandments: with truth in my spirit, with reverence in my body, with the blessing upon my lips- both in private and public.

Help me to show honor and submission to those who have been put over me. Help me to show affection and care for those who been put in my charge. Help me to overcome evil with good, to be free from the love of money, and to be content with what I have. Help me to speak the truth in love, to be desirous not to lust, or to walk after the lusts of my flesh.

O Lord, help me: To bruise the serpent's head. To consider the end of my days. To cut off occasions to sin. To be sober. Not to sit idle. To shun the company of the wicked. To make a covenant with my eyes. To bring my body into subjection. To give myself to prayer. To come to repentance.

Hedge up my way, O Lord, with thorns that I may avoid the false path of vanity. Hold me steady with the bit and the bridle so that I do not pull away from you. O Lord, compel me to come in to you."