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With Nature and With God
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mountains, and there, alone with God, pours out His soul in prayer
for these suffering, sinful, needy ones.
When Jesus said to His disciples that the harvest was great and
the laborers were few, He did not urge upon them the necessity of
ceaseless toil, but bade them, “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the
harvest, that He will send forth laborers into His harvest.”
Matthew
9:38
. To His toil-worn workers today as really as to His first disciples
He speaks these words of compassion, “Come ye yourselves apart,
... and rest awhile.”
All who are under the training of God need the quiet hour for
communion with their own hearts, with nature, and with God. In
them is to be revealed a life that is not in harmony with the world, its
customs, or its practices; and they need to have a personal experience
in obtaining a knowledge of the will of God. We must individually
hear Him speaking to the heart. When every other voice is hushed,
and in quietness we wait before Him, the silence of the soul makes
more distinct the voice of God. He bids us, “Be still, and know that
I am God.”
Psalm 46:10
. This is the effectual preparation for all
labor for God. Amidst the hurrying throng, and the strain of life’s
intense activities, he who is thus refreshed will be surrounded with
an atmosphere of light and peace. He will receive a new endowment
of both physical and mental strength. His life will breathe out a
fragrance, and will reveal a divine power that will reach men’s hearts.
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