Editorial September 12, 1988 Issue

Does God "pay attention" to our prayers?

Ann Kenrick

Clifford Longley, the religious affairs editor of The Times (London), paid tribute recently to a former Archbishop of Canterbury. Longley wrote that this church leader "had the characteristic quality of a man of God, of seeming to be on intimate terms with the Almighty." He continued, "Such people give an impression that so sharp are their eyes of faith, they can actually see what the rest of us cannot: they can see God paying attention to their prayers."

He concluded the article with these words: "The lesson which a man of God teaches is that the one unique school of love of which we know is a life of prayer. That can only mean that the experience of prayer is an experience of being loved." "The inward calm of holiness," The Times (London), April 26, 1988.

God does indeed hear prayer. The Bible is full of accounts of men and women who turned to God with their deepest concerns and experienced His love for them in answered prayer.

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