Watch unto Prayer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 27, 1869

Watch unto Prayer.

If we would but watch, we should find the most urgent necessity for prayer. If our eyes were attent upon the dangers of our situation to really take them in, how should we wrestle with God for help. Could we but take a partial view of our own lack of heavenly grace, and our great unlikeness to the pattern which we must imitate, we certainly should call on God in such a manner as we are not accustomed to do. Our case is really of the most urgent character. Our danger is imminent and appalling. We have but a brief moment in which to seek God. How many of us, like Jonah, spend it asleep? And how forcible in our cases are the words of the shipmaster addressed to him: “What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God.”