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I Will Hear What God the Lord Will Speak

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 11, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 50.

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“I Will Hear What God the Lord Will Speak”

By L. M. Gregg

We are told that once the disciples saw their Master at prayer, something so impressed them that they felt they had never really prayed, so they asked him to teach them to pray. We all need to be taught how to pray. Perhaps we have prayed for years, and received many answers to our prayers; still we have many lessons yet to learn in praying.
A little child missed her mother at a certain time every day. The mother’s habit was to slip away up-stairs alone, and to be gone for some time. The child noticed that the mother was always gentler, quieter, and sweeter after she came back. Her face had lost its weary look and was shining. Her voice was gladder, more cheerful.
“Where do you go, mother,” the child asked, thoughtfully, “when you leave us every day?”
“I go up-stairs to my room,” the mother said.
“Why do you go to your room?” continued the little questioner. “You always come back with your face shining. What makes it shine so?”
“I go to pray,” the mother replied, reverently.
The child was silent for a little while, and then she softly said: “Teach me how to pray, mother.”
As fathers and mothers, will not the faithful keeping of the morning watch give us such an influence as this? Do we not desire to lead those in our own homes to higher and better things? Is not this our privilege? There is room in the morning watch circle for fathers, mothers, and children as well as young people.
God desires to do great things through his children. He desires to make them his messengers; but how frequently we fail to take time really to receive the message! David said, “I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.” Ps. 85:8.
Is not the morning watch an excellent time to “hear what God the Lord will speak” to us? We so often do the talking, as the poet says:—
“I tell him all my sorrows, I tell him all my joys, I tell him all that pleases me, I tell him what annoys.”
How frequently we fail, though, in listening while—
“He tells me what I ought to do, He tells me how to try; And so we walk together, My Lord and I.”
In the quiet morning hours it is our privilege to listen to what God will say to us through his Word. Our message will then be clear and will bear fruit. We shall have confidence in the message, and faith in the One who has entrusted us with it. L. M. GREGG.