Give Me Grace

Jesus Christ said, When ye stand praying, forgive, if you have ought against any.
O God, give me grace now so to do.

Jesus Christ said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
O God, give me grace to-day to think, not of what I can get, but of what I can give.

Jesus Christ said, When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
O God, grant that what I give may be given without self-congratulation, and without thought of praise or reward.

Jesus Christ said, Enter ye in at the strait gate.
O God, give me grace this day to keep to the narrow path of duty and honourable dealing.

Jesus Christ said, Judge not.
O God, give me grace this day first to cast out the beam out of my own eye, before I regard the mote that is in my brother’s eye.

Jesus Christ said, What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
O God, give me grace so to live this day that, whatever else I lose, I may not lose my soul.
~John Baillie