Supplication: Go on to Fashion Us!

Go on to Fashion us!

Blessed Lord, we trust there are beginnings and outlines of Thine own character in us, through Thy Holy Spirit; but let that work be carried on, putting more of the contents of beauty, more of the sweetness, the gentleness, the tenderness, that was in Thyself. O divine Sculptor, the divine Spirit; go on to fashion us, until, as Jesus was, so we may be. We will not ask to be spared pain or sorrow, if we may but grow in grace and in the likeness of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Oh make us such, that even Thou Thyself canst look upon us in Christ, and see with delight the work of Thine own hands. Some of us have a hard struggle against inward corruption and hindering circumstances, and impetuous passions. Oh subdue us, Lord. Bring every thought into captivity to the law of Christ. Lead us as captives, triumphing over us in every place, and making even devils to see how sin is conquered in us, and that Christ doth reign. Amen.