May not many of us learn

May not many of us learn a lesson from the little child?

It is not enough to kneel down and make a prayer, nor is it enough to pray about the particular matter that worries us, asking for help or deliverance. Only the most simple-hearted definiteness in prayer will meet the need.

In prayer, we must bring the very perplexity itself, and put it out of our hands into God's, that He may work it out for us. We are to bring the matter as literally to Him — as we would carry a broken watch to the watchmaker's, leaving it for him to repair and readjust.

The little child playing with a handful of cords, when they begin to get into a tangle, goes at once to her mother, that her mother's patient fingers may unravel the snarl. How much better this, than to pull and tug at the cords till the tangle becomes inextricable! May not many of us learn a lesson from the little child?

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