A Devotion from A.B. Simpson

Be it unto thee even as thou wilt. —Matthew 15:28

Oh, the victories of prayer! They are the mountaintops of the Bible. They take us back to the

plains of Mamre, to the fords of Peniel, to the prison of Joseph, to the triumphs of Moses, to

the transcendent victories of Joshua, to the deliverances of David, to the miracles of Elijah and

Elisha, to the whole story of the Master’s life, to the secret of Pentecost, to the keynote of

Paul’s unparalleled ministry, to the lives of saints and the deaths of martyrs, to all that is most

sacred and sweet in the history of the church and the experience of the children of God. And

when, for us, the last conflict has passed, and the footstool of prayer has given place to the

harp of praise, the spots of time that will be gilded with the most celestial and eternal radiance

will be those, often linked with deepest sorrow and darkest night, over which we have the

inscription, “Jehovah-Shammah: the Lord was there!”