Everyman’s Hut

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 115, 27 March 1942, Page 8

Everyman’s Hut

A SOLDIER’S MEDITATION. The day was long, the burden I had borne deemed heavier than I could longer bear, And then it —but I did not . know Somone had knelt in prayer, Had taken me to God that very hour, And asked the easing of the load; and He, In infinite compassion, had stopped down And taken it from me. We cannot tell how often as we pray For some bewildered one, hurst and distressed, The answer comes many times those hearts Find suddem, peace and rest. ‘ Someone had prayed, and faith, a reaching hand, <=» Took hold of God, and brought Him down that day, So many, many hearts have need of prayer— Oh, let us pray. Someone has very aply written that ‘Prayer moves the hand that moves the world, To bring deliverance down? It is the cry of faith to the all-pow-erful and all-present God on behalf

of something or some one. That one may be many hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles away.' .Distance, like time, does not exist where God works. Just as one speaks into a microphone and instantaneously that voice is reproduced on the other side of the world, so true prayer is breathed to God and immediately someone far away is blessed with God’s answer. Nay, God works in a far more wonderful way than this. He says “Before they call I will answer.” There are many true stories told of prayer being made to God for some essential need, something absolutely unobtainable except' from a distance, and which is required urgently. Almost immediately the thing required has arrived, having been on the way for days or weeks to be the answer to that particular prayer. Far away, someone had felt the urge to send that particular article to that particular person, before the latter even felt the need. That is how God works.

Next Sunday, His Majesty has requested to be observed as a day of prayer. God answers true prayer, but true prayer comes only from hearts, honest and true, before God. God does not hear the prayer of hypocrisy. Let us first come to God in humble repentance and confession of departure from Him, and as we surrender our lives to Him, He will hear and answer our prayers. The responsibility is our own.