Tuesday Evening: Before Sleep

God of All Sovereignty,
Your greatness is unsearchable, Your name most majestic, Your glory above the heavens;
Ten thousand ministers to You, ten thousand times ten thousand stand before You;
In Your awful presence we are less than nothing.
We do not approach You because we deserve Your notice, for we are sinners;
Our necessities compel us, our broken hearts incite us, The Mediator draws us, Your acceptance of the others moves us.
Look upon us and be merciful unto us;
Give us faith to believe, and, believing, to have life in Jesus;
May we enter into His sufferings?
Let us see Your hand in the instruments of our grief, rejoicing that they are from Your over-ruling providence.
Let not our weeping hinder sowing; nor sorrow, duty.
While living in a world of change let us seek the abiding city.
Be with us to our journey’s end that we may glorify You in death as in life.
We bless You for preservation, supplies, mercies, and to You, keeper of souls, we commit all we are and have.
May not evil befall us, nor sickness come nigh us, no horror disturb us!
May our conscience be clear, our hearts pure, and our sleep sweet!
And with the innumerable company, who neither slumber nor rest we join in ascribing blessing, honor, glory, and power to the Lamb upon the throne, for ever and ever.