"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything? I answer, What if He knows PRAYER to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need --the need of Himself...Hunger may drive the runaway child home, and he may or may not be fed at once, but he needs his mother more than his dinner. Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other needs; prayer is the beginning of that communion, and some need is the motive of that prayer...So begins a communion, a talking with God, a coming-to-one with Him, which is the sole end of prayer, yea, of existence itself in its infinite phases. We must ask that we may receive; but that we should receive what we ask in respect of our lower needs, is not God's end in making us pray, for He could give us everything without that; to bring His child to his knee, God withholds that man may ask."
~George MacDonald
Lord I want to yearn for you
I want to burn with passion
over you, and only you
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