Andrew Murray, who wrote in the 1800s, is one of the most quoted of God’s choice servants of many years ago. I always enjoy reading the godly writers of centuries past. They write with such depth not often seen today. The piece below is a good one on the importance of being alone with God. It is from Andrew Murray’s book entitled, “God’s Best Secrets.”
And it happened, as He was alone praying. (Luke 9:18)
Man needs to be alone with God. Without this, God cannot have the opportunity to shine into his heart, to transform his nature by His divine working, to take possession of him, and to fill him with His fullness.
Man needs to be alone with God, to yield to the presence and power of His holiness, of His life, and of His love. Christ on earth needed it; He could not live the life of a Son here in the flesh without at times separating Himself entirely from His surroundings and being alone with God. How much more must this be indispensable to us!
When our Lord Jesus gave us the blessed command to enter our inner chamber and shut the door in order to pray to our Father in secret, He gave us the promise that the Father would hear such prayers and would mightily answer them in our lives before men. (See Matthew 6:4)
Alone with God-that is the secret of true prayer, of true power in prayer, of real living, of face-to-face fellowship with God, and of power for service. There is no true, deep conversion; no true, deep holiness; no clothing with the Holy Spirit and with power; no abiding peace or joy, without being daily alone with God. As someone has said, “There is no path to holiness, but in being much and long alone with God.”
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