March 21, 2006

[Rev. Doc]

The Need To Get Alone With God

"After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,"
Matthew 14:23

William Wilberforce, Christian statesman of Great Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, once said, "I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of private devotions starves the soul. It grows lean and faint."

Following a failure in Parliament, he remarked that his problems may have been due to the fact that he spent less and less time in his private devotions in which he could earnestly seek the will of God. He concluded, "God allowed me to stumble."

Prayer: Ask God to help you make the time to be alone with Him.

"The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day."
~Henry Ward Beecher