A prayer from "The Valley of Vision"

I read this while concluding my devotions this morning, and it was a good reminder for my soul:

LORD GOD ALMIGHTY,
Thou art beforehand with men
for Thou hast reconciled Thyself to the world through the cross,
and dost beseech men to accept reconciliation.
It is my responsibility to grasp the overtures of grace,
for if Thou, the offended party, act first
with the word of appeasement,
I need not call in question Thy willingness to save,
but must deplore my own foolish maliciousness;
If I do not come to Thee as one who seeks Thy favor,
I live in contempt, anger, malice, self-sufficiency,
and Thou dost call it enmity.
Thou hast taught me the necessity of a Mediator, a Messiah,
to be embraced in love with all my heart,
as King to rule me,
as Prophet to guide me,
as Priest to take away my sin and death,
and this by faith in Thy beloved Son who teaches me
not to guide myself,
not to obey myself,
not to try to rule and conquer sin,
but to cleave to the one who will do all for me.
Thou hast made known to me
that to save me is Christ's work,
but to cleave to him by faith is my work,
and with this faith is the necessity of my daily repentance
as a mourning for the sin which Christ by grace has removed.
Continue, O God, to teach me
that faith apprehends Christ's righteousness
not only for the satisfaction of justice,
but as unspotted evidence of Thy love for me.
Help me to make use of His work of salvation as the ground of peace,
and of Thy favor to, and acceptance of me the sinner,
so that I may live always near the cross.

~The Valley of Vision. "Reconciliation." p.45