Nov 21
Use Not Vain Repetitions
Matthew 6:7 [show/hide]Matthew 6:7
[7]"And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. (ESV)
When ye pray use not vain repetitions as the heathen do.
But earnest reiteration is not vain petition. The one is born of doubt; the other of faith.
The prayer that springs from a deep-felt need, and will not cease till that need is supplied, may say the same things over a hundred times and yet they shall not be in vain.
Rather, as the same flood is repeatedly driven through the veins by the contraction and dilating of the heart, so all true prayer will flow forth over and over again, as the Spirit opens in yearning and closes itself in calm fruition on the grace it has received, and then dilates again in longing and sense of need.
So the Master who warned us against the paganism of empty repetitions, enjoined upon us the importunity which prevails; and of Himself it is written, “And He left them and went away again the third time, saying the same words”. – Alex. MacLaren.
Few men, if any, have been more mighty in prayer during the past century than George Muller of Bristol, and yet there were objects for which he continued to pray for years.
- Daily Thoughts From Keswick
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