By John David Hicks
O Lord, you remain faithful, even when I have been faithless. You long for my fellowship, even when I have neglected you. I praise you that your love is everlasting and your faithfulness is so unfailing. You are the ancient of days and yet you are so new every day. You live within me, yet I have failed to acknowledge your beauty and at times admit your presence. Your light chases away my blindness. You have cried aloud and forced open my ears to hear. Your fragrance causes my breath to pant after you. I have tasted and do hunger and thirst for you. Your touch has brought me peace. I worship you with all my senses. –Amen
Paul prayed for you: “I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way” (Ephesians 1:17–23).