LISTENING TO GOD by F. B. Meyer

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 34.

LISTENING TO GOD.

By F. B. Meyer

A FRIEND of mine told me that he called one day upon a brother clergyman, who had been ill in bed for six months. He said to this man, “I suppose that God Almighty had a good many things to say ‘to you, but you were too busy to listen, and so He had to put you on ‘your back, that you might be able to give Him time.”

When he was going out the thought struck him, “I, too, am a ‘busy man, and God Almighty may have to put me on my back, that ‘He may tell me all He wishes.”

So he resolved that each night he would sit quietly in his study, not reading, not writing, but opening his heart, that God’s Spirit might impress upon him what He designed to teach, and criticise the life of the previous day.—F. B. Meyer.