Bedtime Prayer

In today's sermon we looked at how Jesus' final words from the cross in Luke taken from Psalm 31 are thought to be a bedtime prayer Jewish mothers would teach their children - "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit." I want to offer a modified expanded version of a contemporary equivalent we say with Noah each night before bed.

Now I lay me

Down to sleep

I pray the Lord

My soul to keep

If I should die

Before I wake

I pray the Lord

My soul to take

But if I should live

Another day

I pray the Lord

To guide my way

Thank you Jesus

Savior Friend

And now at last

We say, Amen.