WEARY, TIRED AND HEARTBROKEN?
" The heart is by nature restless as old ocean's waves; it seeks an object for its affection; and when it finds one beneath the stars, it is doomed to sorrow. Either the beloved changes, and there is disappointment; or death comes in, and there is bereavement. The more tender the heart, the greater its unrest. Those in whom the heart is simply one of the largest valves are undisturbed, because they are callous; but the sensitive, the generous, and the unselfish, are often found seeking rest and finding none. To such, the Lord Jesus says, "Come unto Me and I will give you rest."
Think about God. Make much of Him till He broadens and fills the horizon of faith. Then prayer will come into its marvellous inheritance of wonders. The marvels of prayer are seen when we remember that God's purposes are changed by prayer. God's vengeance is stayed by prayer, and God's penalty is remitted by prayer. Here is a force which must be increasingly used, that of prayer, a force to which all the events of life ought to be subjected.
Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give and which prayer can alone convey to us. Asking is man's part. Giving is God's part. The praying belongs to us. The answer belongs to God. Man makes the plea and God makes the answer. The plea and the answer compose the prayer.
God is everywhere, watching, superintending, overseeing, governing everything in the highest interest of man. He is not an absentee God. He did not make the world with all that is in it, and turn it over to the so-called natural laws and then retire into the secret places of the universe having no regard for it or for the working of His laws. His hand is on the throttle. The work is not beyond his control. Earth's inhabitants and its affairs are not running independent of Almighty God. God's hand is in everything. None are beyond Him or beneath His notice.
The providence of God reaches as far as the realm of prayer. It has to do with everything for which we pray. Nothing is too small for the eye of God, nothing too significant for His notice and His care. God's providence has to do with even the stumbling of the feet of His saints. The care of Providence reaches to the most insignificant creatures and the most minute events - - the death of a sparrow and the fall of a hair."
E.M Bounds
THEREFORE FRET NOT, NEITHER BE WEARY. LIFT UP THE HANDS THAT HANG DOWN AND GO TO GOD IN PRAYER... "CASTING ALL YOUR CARES UPON HIM FOR HE CARES FOR YOU."
"O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
