Thanksgiving: Our Supreme Delight

Our Supreme Delight

Gracious God, the highest pleasure we anticipate is that of worshipping Thee to perfection with cherubim and seraphim and all the host redeemed by blood, with legions of angels and creatures innumerable we hope to pour out day without night continually songs of adoring joy, and even now one of our nearest approaches to heaven is in sacred song. O Thou, our supreme delight, our inheritance, our light, our life, our all; we can truly say we delight in God. O Thou blessed One, we love Thy Word, we love Thy House, we love Thy Day. And Thou Thyself, what shall we say of Thee! Take us more and more unto Thyself through Jesus Christ the Mediator, and let our hearts be more and more taken up with Thee. Thy servants have gone another six days' journey through the wilderness and they are glad to come to an oasis, to the Lord's Day, a day set apart for worship and spiritual improvement. Be near us Lord, to-day; put everything away. May we keep the world outside, and may we have such a fullness of God in us, and be ourselves so wholly in God, that the day may be delightful, every hour of it, even to the closing benediction when we fall asleep. Amen.