KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 181, 1 August 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)

KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.

A SUBJECT FOR PRAYER.

This is an extract from a sermon p.;?aclied in Grimsby by the Rev. Frank Y. Leggatt 011 the mystery of God. 1 cannot understand why it is that when we come to pray, we priiy for almost everything rather than for the

knowledge of God. And yet so it is. We pivy for money. We pray for success. "We pray for prosperity. We pray fo: any coveted object of desire

within the ambit of our terrestrial ambition. But we do not pray for God. And we should pray for God. If wa prayed for God we should, most certainly, have our prayers answered. If we prayed for God we should get God. Can I not persuade some of you to make God the prayer of your life and the desire of your hearts, not money or

prosperity or success or any of the other things that may occur to you, b"t God - Himself. lam sure that it would be worth your while to go in for a spiritual exercise of that kind. It is said than when Thomas Aquinas had finished a long day's worl! li .his

desk an angel appeared -unto hfm in a

vision and said, "Thou hast written well of me, Thomas, what reward dost thou desire?" And the great teacher of Aquinum replied, 'TSTon aliam nisi te, Domine," which being interpreted means "No other than Thyself, O Lord." We would have gone a long way toward the deepening of our spiritual life if we rose to the level of the great Doctor and cherished his conception of prayer.

If we waited on God, if we opened our hearts to receive Him, if we said: I will seek for no other things, I will seek for 'this one thing only, I will seek God, I will have my own little* life enriched by the very fullness of God, and go out to do the work of God in the world, not in my own strength but in and with the Divine strength super-added to my own, I will show them that are against me that He that is in me is mightier than he that is in the world, we would reach a new kind of life, a kind of life that we had never experienced before, and we would make the men and women that meet us know that something had happened to us and that we had been miraculously transformed by the operation of the spirit of God within us.