Edges of His Ways - Daily Devotion Notes [Amy Carmichael]
Gen. 15:2: Lord God, what wilt Thou give me?
When thinking of the further reaches of prayers I came on this, the simplest of all, like the words of a small child before it has learned not to ask for things for itself. If the friend of God could speak so to his God, we may in all simplicity do so too. "Lord God, what wilt Thou give me?"
Just as a child passes from the less to the greater in desire, so we find in our Bible that the desire of man, as he walked further on with God, grows and grows till we come to such words as Paul's, words that reach far beyond any earthly good - "That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings"; and soon that other word follows, so often forgotten in hurried prayer: the first good thing promised is not the thing for which we prayed, but peace.
"Lord God, what wilt Thou give me?"
"The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Is not peace an answer?
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