Article January 2, 1960 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from George S. Reamey, J. H. Hunter

Rev. George S. Reamey in The Virginia Methodist Advocate Richmond, Virginia

Prayer helps us discover the will of God for our lives. There is a vast difference between the prayer that asks God to do for us what we want done, on the one hand, and the prayer that tries to find out what God wants us to be and to do!

"Nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt," is ever the ideal way to pray. Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane just before the crucifixion had just asked God that "the cup" (the cross) might be taken from Him. But then He added that marvelous petition just quoted. He wanted above all to do the will of God!

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