Elder Joseph's prayer to Christ as Savior, Light, Truth, and Love

The post presents a prayer attributed to Elder Joseph addressed to Jesus Christ. The prayer opens by naming Christ as Lord, God, Bridegroom of the soul, and Redeemer. The author declares love for Christ because he is the Savior who wills, knows, can, and saves from every danger of body and soul, from the sinful self, from the hateful devil, from evil people, and from eternal death that comes from persistent sin.

The prayer continues by naming Christ as the Light, true, sweet, life-giving, that shines within and around, beautifies the formation and the faces of loved people, and gives the ability to walk with safety, to run, to climb, to compare, to prefer. Christ is then named as the Truth, pure, honorable, hopeful, life-giving, redemptive, the truth for all things yesterday, today, tomorrow, and into the ages.

Finally, Christ is named as Love, greatest, warmest, wisest, strongest, truest, most personal, the Love that was crucified for the author. The text is a direct devotional address structured in four movements, each beginning with "I love you, my Christ, because you are" followed by a title and a series of descriptors and effects. There is no discussion or commentary accompanying the prayer in the source.