Alone With God

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 12, 1903

In the days of hurry and bustle we find ourselves face to face with a terrible danger, and it is this—no time to be alone with God. The world in these last days is running fast. We live in what is called the “age of progress,” and, you know, we must keep pace with the times. So the world says. But this spirit of the world has not confined itself to the world. It is, alas, to be found among the saints of God. And what is the result? The result is, no time to be alone with God, and this is immediately followed by no inclination to be alone with God.

Let us turn to the pages of God’s Book. On scanning its precious pages, we find that the men of God—God’s mighty men—were those who had been in “the school of God,” as it has been well said; and his school was simply this: “In the desert alone with himself.” It was there they got their teaching. Far removed from the din of the haunts of men,—distant alike from human eye and ear,—there they met alone with God; there they were equipped for the battle. And when the time came that they stood forth in public service for God, their faces were not ashamed—nay, they had faces as lions; they were bold and fearless, yea, and victorious for God; for the battle had been won already in the desert with him.—London Christian.