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Making Time For God
“And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, He went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed” (Mark 1:35).
“And He withdrew Himself into the
wilderness, and prayed” (Luke 5:16).
It wasn’t easy for the prominent missionary, Hudson Taylor, to make time for prayer and Bible study while traveling in northern China. His children remember how at night, after sleep and darkness had finally brought a measure of quiet, they would hear the striking of a match and see the flicker of candlelight which told that their father, however weary, was poring over his Bible. From 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. was the time he usually gave to personal, private prayer, as it was the time he could be most sure of being undisturbed to wait upon God.
In later years, the memory of that flicker of candlelight meant more to them than all they read or heard on the subject of Bible study and secret prayer. Their father, as busy as he was, had demonstrated in a very real and practical way the need for personal communion and time alone with the Lord.
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