Do you spend time daily in
prayer? If not, why not? We say we believe in prayer. If so, why don’t we put our words into
action?
In Hugh Price Hughes’ story, the “City of Everywhere,” a man arrived in a
city one cold morning. As he got off the
train, the station was like any other station with the crowds and redcaps, except
that everybody was barefoot. They wore
no shoes. He noticed the cabdriver was
barefooted. “Pardon me,” he asked the
driver. “I was just wondering why you
don’t wear shoes. Don’t you believe in
shoes?”
“Sure we do,” said the driver.
“Why don’t you wear them?”
“Ah, that’s the question,” came
the reply. “Why don’t we wear
shoes? Why don’t we?”
At the hotel it was the same. The clerk, bell boys, everybody was
barefooted. In the coffee shop he
noticed a nice-looking fellow at a table opposite him who was barefooted. He said, “I notice you aren’t wearing any
shoes. I wonder why. Then why don’t you wear them?”
“Ah, that’s the question. Why don’t we?
Why don’t we?”
After breakfast he walked out on
the street in the snow but every person he saw was barefooted. He asked another man about it, and pointed
out how shoes protect your feet from cold.
The man said, “We know about
shoes. See that building yonder? That is a shoe factory. We are proud of that plant and every week we
gather there to hear the man in charge tell about shoes and how wonderful they
are.”
“Then why don’t you wear shoes?”
“Ah, that’s the question.”
Don’t we believe in prayer? Don’t we know what it could mean in our
lives? Then why don’t we pray? Ah, that’s the question...Why don’t we?
✞ Stop making excuses and put prayer into action.
