In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of approaching prayer with sincerity and openness, as we stand before a divine presence.
Charles Spurgeon's quote highlights the profound significance of prayer as a sacred act where we share our deepest thoughts and desires with a higher power. He contrasts the reverence shown by celestial beings with the limitations we sometimes impose on our own requests, urging us to have a broader and more faithful perspective when we engage in prayer, reflecting on the divine nature of our communication with the spiritual realm.
In practice
During a church service, when discussing the importance of faith and prayer.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.
If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.
May we all make the journey to Bethlehem in spirit, taking with us a tender caring heart as our gift to the Savior.
Prayer unites the soul to God.
Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.
Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.
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