| The Golden Gate of Prayer |
Chapter 11 |
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More surely and with more loving thought does he know his own children. He knows our names. Each one of us is personally dear to him. The very hairs of our head are all numbered. Not one of us is ever forgotten in heaven for a moment. We can be in no place or condition in which our circumstances are not well known to God. “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.”
This teaching makes the law of life very simple. We are not to live to get food, but are to live, first and last, as God’s, and for God. We have nothing to do directly with the supplying of our own wants; that is God’s matter, not ours. There are but two things we need to concern ourself about. First, we should do our duty — the will of God, as it is made known to us day by day. Then we should trust God for the supply of our bodily and temporal wants.
Those who have learned to live thus have found the way of peace. Over-anxiety is sin. It dishonors God, for it is bred of doubt; it hurts our own life, hindering our spiritual growth, marring the beauty of our character and blurring our witness for God to others. If we faithfully do God’s will, as revealed to us, and then trust God perfectly, the peace of God will guard our hearts and thoughts in Christ Jesus.
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