IN days of old, stone breaking used to be done with just a hammer, and men would sit all day and break stones, but now they break them with large machines that they call stone crushers, so the work is done much faster. Sometimes the men who broke the stones would not sit, but would get on their knees, and that not because they wanted to change their position, but when they had very hard stones to break, they found they had more strength that way, and so could break them easier.
Now, there is a lesson we may learn from this that is of more importance than breaking stones. We find many difficult things in our path, and we try hard to accomplish them, but forget to get on our knees and ask the Lord to enable us, for we can do nothing of ourselves?
You may say, Did the stone-breakers, when they got on their knees, pray to God to help them? I am afraid many of them did not, they simply did so because they could put more of their strength to the work, but I am simply using it as an illustration for us to go before God about everything in our path.
The first thing for us to do is to accept God’s salvation through Christ Jesus, for e is the only Saviour. Do you have Him as your Saviour, dear reader? If you have, it is your great privilege to go to Him about everything in your path. But if you have not accepted Christ as your Saviour, you need not expect God to listen to your prayers, for Christ is God’s wonderful gift as a Saviour for sinners, and if we refuse such a gift from God, could we expect that He should answer our prayers? May you accept Christ now, and then trust Him with all your difficulties.
ML 09/29/1918