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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. Psalms 62:1. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Psalms 37:7. The Lord was not in the earthquake . . . . not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice. 1 Kings 19:11-12.
The image of the sun is not reflected in the water except when it is quiet and smooth. So with God in the soul. There are pious men who in their prayers have so much concerning which to speak to God, that God cannot speak to them because they do not give Him time to do so. They do not wait for an answer. They have so much to say to God that He cannot say anything to them. One word that God speaks to you is better than a thousand that you speak to Him. To sit at His feet like Mary, and to bring your uneasy, turbulent heart at rest before His face that it may receive His deep and sublime impression; to seek His face and rejoice in His presence, is a thousand times better than to give yourself much to do like Martha. You cannot discover the "still, small voice" in which Elijah found the Lord, in your heart; you can neither perceive the Lord in you, nor can you rejoice in His presence, if it storm in you or the wild fire of passion flash in you. Conceive the thought that you and your Savior are alone in the chamber of your heart. Shut out the world, not only from your room, but from your heart. Bring all disorderly emotions to rest in your heart: then the Spirit of God shall come in a still small voice, and the Lord shall be seen in His holy temple.
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
Thy wings shall my petition bear
To Him whose truth and faithfulness
Engage the waiting soul to bless;
And since He bids me seek His face.
Believe His word, and trust His grace,
I’ll cast on Him my every care.
And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
