A Deeper Repentance

     We ought to ask God for a deeper repentance before His throne.  We also ought to ask God for a greater horror of sin and dread of its approach.  We ought to call upon God to flee sin and jealousy seek that our hearts be His alone.  We ought to ask for a deeper trust and lose ourselves to find it in Him.  The Lord is the ground of our rest and the spring of our being.  We ought to ask for a deeper knowledge of Him who lives and reigns forevermore.  He is our Savior, Master, Lord and King.  We ought to ask for a deeper power in private prayer.  To understand and experience the sweetness of His Word and the more steadfast grip of His truth.  We ought to ask for a deeper holiness in word, thought and deed.  We ought to comprehend that there is no moral virtue apart from Him.   We would do well to ask the Lord of our souls to plough deep in us, for He is a great Lord.   He is our heavenly Husbandman, and that our being may be tilled field, the roots of grace spreading far and wide until Christ is seen in us.  We ought to have His fruitfulness in autumn plenty.  We have no Master except Jesus Christ our Lord and Redeemer.  We ought to have no law but His will.   We ought also to have no wealth but that He alone gives.  We have good but only from His sovereign Hand.  We have no peace except what He gives.  We are nothing but what only God makes us to be.  We have nothing except what He bestows.  We can be nothing except what His grace gives us.  We ought to pray that the Lord quarry in us a deep sense of His grace of His overflowing living water.  (The Valley of Vision, pg. 134-135).