No Lesson is More Important for Us to Learn

George Müller 

A. T. Pierson's biography of George Müller is a messenger of God to my heart and soul. It is at the same time the Lord's rod and his staff, and it comforts me. It is teaching me things I should have already learned, or things that I have learned but neglected. Whichever is worse, that is the case I am in. But this little book is helping me. Take what I've just read this evening ...

" ... No lesson is more important for us to learn, yet how slow are we to learn it: that for the lack of habitual seasons set apart for devout meditation upon the Word of God and for prayer, nothing else will compensate. We are prone to think, for example, that converse with Christian brethren, and the general round of Christian activity, especially when we are much busied with preaching the Word and [with] visits to inquiring or needy souls, [that these] make up for the loss of aloneness with God in the secret place. We hurry to a public service with but a few minutes of private prayer, allowing precious time to be absorbed in social pleasures, restrained from withdrawing from others by a false delicacy, when to excuse ourselves for needful communion with God and his Word would have been perhaps the best witness possible to those whose company was holding us unduly! How often we rush from one public engagement to another without any proper interval for renewing our strength in waiting on the Lord, as though God cared more for the quantity than [for] the quality of our service!"

Lord, help me indeed to learn it.