Day 38 - March 22

Scripture Reading

Luke 13:2-5 (NLT)

2 “Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?” Jesus asked. “Is that why they suffered? 3 Not at all! And you will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God. 4 And what about the eighteen people who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them? Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem? 5 No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish, too.”

Prayer Focus

For God’s mercies for my sins, and to focus on my relationship before Him without comparing it to that of others

O Father of heaven; O Son of God, Redeemer of the world; O Holy Ghost, proceeding from them both; three Persons, and one God; have mercy upon me, most wretched caitiff and miserable sinner. I have offended both heaven and earth, more grievously than any tongue can express. Where then may I go, or where should I flee for help? To heaven I may be ashamed to lift up my eyes, and in earth I find no refuge or help. What shall I then do? Shall I despair? God forbid. O good God, you are merciful, and refuse none who come unto you for help. To you, therefore, do I run; to you do I humble myself; saying, O Lord God, my sins be great, but yet have mercy upon me for your great mercy. O God the Son, this great mystery was not wrought (that God became man) for few or small offences; nor you did not give your Son unto death, O God the Father, for our little and small sins only, but for all the greatest sins of the world, so that the sinner return unto you with a penitent heart, as I do here at this present.

For this reason have mercy upon me, O Lord, whose property is always to have mercy; for although my sins be great, yet your mercy is greater. And I crave nothing, O Lord, for my own merits, but for your name’s sake, that it may be glorified thereby, and for your dear Son, Jesus Christ’s sake.

~ Final Prayer of Thomas Cranmer (before being burned at the stake)