Praying and Working by C. H. Spurgeon

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 25, 1881

Praying and Working

By C. H. Spurgeon

PRAYING AND WORKING. — I like that saying of Martin Luther when he says, "I have so much business to do to-day that I shall not be able to get through it with less than three hours' prayer." Now, most people would say, "I have so much business to do to-day that I have only three minutes for prayer. I cannot afford the time." But Luther thought that the more he had to do the more he must pray, or else he could not get through it. That is a blessed kind of logic; may we understand it? "Praying and provender hinder no man's journey." If we have to stop and pray it is no more a hindrance than when the rider has to stop at the farrier's to have his horse's shoe fastened; for if he went on without attending to that, it may be that ere long he would come to a stop of a far more serious kind. —C. H. Spurgeon.

"WALK while ye have the light."