Seven days without prayer makes one weak. ~Allen E. Vartlett
What if God knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most?
What if the main object in God’s idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need–the need of Himself?
What if the good of all our smaller and lower needs lies in this, that they help to drive us to God?
Hunger may drive the runaway child home, and he may or not be fed at once, but he needs his mother more than his dinner.
Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other need; prayer is the beginning of that communion, and some need is the motive of that prayer.
Our wants are for the sake of our coming into communion with God, our eternal need.
We must ask that we may receive, but that we should receive what we ask in respect of our lower needs, is not God’s end in making us pray, for He could give us everything without that.
To bring His child to his knee, God withholds that man may ask.
George MacDonald Scottish pastor/poet (1824-1905)
Photograph by Melanie Hunt
