Morning Thoughts No. 2 by Mrs. H. T. H. Sanborn

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, December 2, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 48

MORNING THOUGHTS.—NO. 2.

By Mrs. H. T. H. Sanborn

BY MRS. H. T. H. SANBORN.

“My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.” Ps. 5:3. How fitting that these wakeful morning hours be spent in meditation and supplication to God! When both mind and body are refreshed, we have our best thoughts; and as it is our “reasonable service” to offer the best we have to God, we should commence the day in association with him. While the mental powers are fresh, before the cares of the day step in to distract and trouble the channel of thought, then we should devote a season to self-examination and prayer. While the busy world lies in unconscious slumber, let us turn our minds upward, directing our prayer to the One whose eye never sleeps, whose ear is ever open to the cry of the righteous. Why should we not “honor the Lord” with the first fruits of the mind, and let our voices be heard in heaven at this early hour? We know not how many of Satan’s snares we may avoid by thus “talking with God,” becoming better acquainted with him and his will concerning us. Our Saviour “continued all night in prayer to God.” If he, the sinless one, found need of such prolonged pleading, how much more ought sinful beings to be given unto prayer. Then let us never allow ourselves to wait till we have nothing to offer to God but jaded minds and world-serving thoughts, but in the morning pay our vows to the Lord, thus getting a preparation for a day’s march toward home.