"What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?" asked Jesus of the
blind man (Luke xviii. 41).
He had respect to the will of the blind man, and granted his
request, seeing he had faith. And He still has respect to the
vigorous, sanctified will of His people--the will that has been
subdued by consecration and faith into loving union with His
will.
The Lord answered Abraham on behalf of Sodom till he ceased to
ask.
"The Lord has had His way so long with Hudson Taylor," said a
friend, "that now, Hudson Taylor can have his way with the Lord."
Adoniram Judson lay sick with a fatal illness in far-away Burmah.
His wife read to him an account of the conversion of a number of
Jews in Constantinople through some of his writings. For a while
the sick man was silent, and then he spoke with awe, telling his
wife that for years he had prayed that he might be used in some
way to bless the Jews, yet never having seen any evidence that
his prayers were answered; but now, after many years and from far
away, the evidence of answer had come. And then, after further
silence, he spoke with deep emotion, saying that he had never
prayed a prayer for the glory of God and the good of men but
that, sooner or later, even though for the time being he had
forgotten, he found that God had not forgotten, but had
remembered and patiently worked to answer his prayer.
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