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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 7, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 45.

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God Is Lonely for You

By Meade MacGuire

MEADE MACGUIRE
YESTERDAY I was busy for several hours at work which absorbed my whole attention. As the time passed, I became increasingly conscious of a feeling of loneliness,—an intense longing, which I finally stopped to analyze. At once I knew it was the hunger for God and for prayer. Then a very comforting thought came stealing into my mind. Why do I feel this sense of longing and loneliness for God? Is it not the response of my heart to his own longing for me?
Parents, when one of the little ones goes away to spend the day with a playmate, do you not often find yourself lonely and longing for his return? And even in the midst of play, the thoughtful child will often think of father and mother and home.
God is lonely for you. Let not your heart be overcharged with the cares of this life, but let it respond to his longing with the cry of David, “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God,” or the last prayer of the great apostle as he stood at the executioner’s block: “O Lord, thou art my comfort and my portion; when shall I embrace thee; when shall I see thee for myself, without a dimming veil between?”