| The Golden Gate of Prayer |
Chapter 11 |
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We are taught to limit our wants, but we are to ask with confidence for all we may need for the day. Days differ. Some bring their heavy burdens, their great wants, their keen sorrow, their crosses. Others have fewer needs God knows our days, and he is better able that we are to measure our real wants for each day. We may safely, therefore, ask for daily bread, and let him choose what to give us. He will never give too little.
“If a ‘to-morrow.’ Who can tell?
To sleep, or wake?
To work, or rest?
What he deems best,
God gives, we take,
Knowing ‘he doeth all things well!’”
It is surely a great comfort to know that in this world each one of us is thought about and cared for by our Father, who loves us with an infinite and everlasting love. He does not think of us merely as a vast, uncounted family, but as individuals. “He telleth the number of the stars; he giveth them all their names.” If one star should go out, God would miss its shining. He knows the birds and misses the one that drops from the flock.
“No moment passes but he knows
How many there should be.
One buildeth high, another low,
With just a bird’s light care;
If only one, perchance, doth fall,
God knoweth when and where.”
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