December 7

Genesis 22:10-13

10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. 11 But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." 12 He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me." 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called the name of that place, "The LORD will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided."

Grant, Almighty God,
since we are all lost in ourselves, that we may desire
to obtain life where it is laid up for us and where
Thou dost manifest it, namely, in Thy Son.
And grant that we may so embrace the grace that has been
exhibited to us in the sacrifice of His death
that we may be regenerated by His Spirit.
And thus being born again, may we devote ourselves
wholly to Thee and so glorify Thy name in this world
that we may at length be partakers of that glory
that the same. Thine only begotten Son, has acquired
for us. Amen.