Yet God knows all that goes on in your soul.
Every thought that flies through your brain is heard in heaven.
"O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising,
Thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down,
And art acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue,
But, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether."
We need not trouble ourselves, therefore, if we cannot get our wishes
into words when we pray, for God hears wishes, heart-longings, soul
hungerings and thirstings. The things we cannot say in speech of the
lips, we may ask God to take from our heart's speech. There is not the
feeblest, faintest glimmer of a desire rising on the far-away horizon
of our being, but God sees it. There is not a heart-hunger, not a wish
to be holier and better, not an aspiration to be more Christ-like, not
a craving to live for God and be a blessing to others, not the faintest
desire to be rid of sin's power, but God knows of it. St. Paul has a
wonderful word on this subject: God, he says, "is able to do exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think." When our heart is stirred
to its depths, what large, great things can we ask in words? Then, how
much can we put into thoughts of prayer, into longings, desires,
aspirations, beyond the possibilities of speech? God can do more than
we can pray either in words or thoughts.
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