The secret is that we are not so really devout at heart as we should be. Habitual communion with God must be maintained, or our public prayers will be vapid and formal. If there be no melting of the glacier high up in the ravines of the mountain there will be no descending rivulets to cheer the plain. Private prayer is the drill ground for our more public exercises neither can we long neglect it without being out of order when before the people.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Why Aren't Our Extemporaneous Prayers Better?
Spurgeon answers this question in Lectures to My Students, p. 61:
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