O Lord Jesus, I am by nature a rebel and find more pleasure in
what you made than in you. I am sick and corrupt. O Christ, how
plain it is to me now that I need something so much deeper and more
powerful and more personal than the law. I know your law is good.
But I am flesh, and powerless to obey. And so, Lord Jesus, I turn
away from the law to you. You are my only hope. I turn away from my
own resources and bank on your help for holiness. I turn away from
all earthly pleasures and take you, and you alone, as the
all-satisfying joy of my life. I renounce Satan and all his ways
and all his works. I repent of all the sins I know, and those you
know and I don't.

And, O Lord, I pray that you would have mercy on me, and open
the eyes of my heart to see you as you really are in all of your
surpassing beauty. I pray that you would display your glory to me
in the gospel. What I see and know of you now, I embrace with all
my heart. I receive you as my Savior and Lord and Treasure. And ask
you to dwell mightily in me and make yourself the Victor in my life
so that when I love my brothers and my enemies - as I intend with
all my heart to do - the glory will go to you.

Amen.