Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not. One of the heathen poets speaks of Jupiter throwing certain prayers to the winds, — dispersing them in empty air. It is sad to think that we often do that for ourselves. What would you think of a man who had written and folded and sealed and addressed a letter, flinging it out into the street and thinking no more about it? Sailors in foundering ships sometimes commit notes in sealed bottles to the waves for the chance of them being some day washed on some shore. Sir John Franklin's companions among the snows, and Captain Allen Gardiner dying of hunger in his cove, wrote words they could not be sure anyone would ever read. But we do not need to think of our prayers as random messages. We should therefore look for a reply to them and watch to get it. (J. Edmond.) Parallel Verses KJV: Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. |
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