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Daily Devotionals
Our Daily Homily - Volume 2
Psalms 27:4—One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after.
One purpose dominated prayer and life. It was never long absent from the Psalmist’s thought. The men of one idea are irresistible The arrowy stream will force its way through the toughest soil. See that all the prayers, incidents, and circumstances of life sub-serve one intense purpose. String all the beads on one thread. When the eye is single, the whole body in full of light.
The Psalmist’s purpose.—What a blessing that the Psalmist’s purpose may be ours! To dwell in the house of the Lord is to live within the vail in fellowship with God, in the habitual recollection of his presence. To behold his beauty is to keep looking off unto Jesus. To inquire in his Temple is to commune with the Lord about all the concerns of home and business, of church and commonwealth. In senses of which the material Temple could give but a faint conception, we may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of our lives.
The Psalmist’s search.—Let us seek after this as well as pray for it. Let it be the fixed purpose and resolution of every day. Let us begin with it in the morning, and at every spare moment remember that we have boldness to stand in the Most Holy Place. Oh to be as intent on this high quest as the man of science to discover nature’s secrets; as the business man to make a fortune; as the brave explorer to extort the secret from the Polar Seas!
True prayer will never be presumptuous. It will not ask God to do for us what we may do for ourselves. It will ask as though all depended on asking, but it will seek as though all depended on seeking.
"Thrice blest, whose lives are faithful prayers;
What souls possess themselves so pure?"
