Devotional : Our Heavenly Friend
Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him,
“Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a
journey, and I have nothing to set before him” … I tell you, though he
will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet
because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you.
It’s tempting to think that talking about God is the principal
expression of our relationship with Him. It’s possible, though, for us
to talk about God without any intimate knowledge of who He truly is.
Evidence of our personal relationship with God is often found not in our
public words but in our private prayers—not in what we say about Him but in what we say to
Him. Indeed, as Robert Murray M’Cheyne was said to have observed, “What
a man is on his knees before God, that he is—and nothing more.”
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