Some thoughts on a verse I put in my journal two years ago:
Solitary prayer alone with God. Jesus got up early, obviously before anyone else was up to do this. If it was important to Him, to His spiritual life to have the type of time alone praying, His "Table for Two" with the Father, how important is it for us?
A snippet from the 1/28 The Daily Spurgeon ties in nicely with this for me:
I pray to get nearer to God. I pray to get the peace that is not otherwise available to me. I pray when I struggle with my life (like yesterday) to get the calm, if not all the answers, to go on with things in a way that glorifies my God.
I pray because Jesus did, and how can I go wrong with His behavior to aspire to? If only I could do it more faithfully and consistently (or a little less stubbornly), for when I do I enter His rest and feel His peace.
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Mark 1:35 (NASB)
Solitary prayer alone with God. Jesus got up early, obviously before anyone else was up to do this. If it was important to Him, to His spiritual life to have the type of time alone praying, His "Table for Two" with the Father, how important is it for us?
A snippet from the 1/28 The Daily Spurgeon ties in nicely with this for me:
The true Christian has a peace which is totally unknown to any
other man; yea, he hath “the peace of God which passeth all
understanding.” There are indeed two kinds of peace into the secret
satisfaction of which no unconverted person can enter — peace with God, and peace in the heart...
From a sermon entitled "The Great Privation: Or, The Great Salvation."
I pray to get nearer to God. I pray to get the peace that is not otherwise available to me. I pray when I struggle with my life (like yesterday) to get the calm, if not all the answers, to go on with things in a way that glorifies my God.
I pray because Jesus did, and how can I go wrong with His behavior to aspire to? If only I could do it more faithfully and consistently (or a little less stubbornly), for when I do I enter His rest and feel His peace.
2 comments:
"If only I could do it more faithfully and consistently"
Amen to that!
Good prayer.
I'm not so good at the early morning thing, but I appreciate the fact that he prayed at night too.
I figure if I get the PM, but not the AM, that's a start.
(And thanks for the zombie link.)
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