secret things belong to the LORD our God” (Deuteronomy 29:29); but if you ask, “How am I to serve and glorify God here and now, where I am?” there will always be an answer. It is not too much to say that God made us to pray, that prayer is (not the easiest, but) the most natural activity in which we ever engage, and that prayer is the measure of us all in God’s sight. “What a man is alone on his knees before God,” said the saintly Murray McCheyne, “that he is—and no more.” Perhaps Jesus’