The prayer of the upright is his
delight. (Proverbs 15:8)
This is as good as a promise, for it declares a present
fact, which will be the same throughout all ages. God takes great pleasure in the
prayers of upright men; He even calls them His delight. Our first concern is to
be upright. Neither bending this way nor that, continue upright; not crooked
with policy, nor prostrate by yielding to evil, be you upright in strict
integrity and straightforwardness. If we begin to shuffle and shift, we shall
be left to shift for ourselves. If we try crooked ways, we shall find that we
cannot pray, and if we pretend to do so, we shall find our prayers shut out of
heaven.
Are we acting in a straight line and thus following out
the Lord's revealed will? Then let us pray much and pray in faith. If our
prayer is God's delight, let us not stint Him in that which gives Him pleasure.
He does not consider the grammar of it, nor the metaphysics of it, nor the rhetoric
of it; in all these men might despise it. He, as a Father, takes pleasure in
the lispings of His own babes, the stammerings of His newborn sons and
daughters. Should we not delight in prayer since the Lord delights in it? Let
us make errands to the throne. The Lord finds us enough reasons for prayer, and
we ought to thank Him that it is so.
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