When Christ was about leaving the world, He said, “Father, the hour is come!” not an hour, but “the hour.” That hour, in its far-reaching results embraced every hour since time began. In our lives there are periods that mold and shape our destiny. These are seed-hours; so that we reap, in the long harvest days that follow, what has been sown in these hours. Probably no hour in our lives molds and shapes our well-being for time and eternity as the morning hour spent with God. Then we are fresh and vigorous, and can take in and digest more truth than at any other time. To spend this best hour with our best Friend, for our best possible good, seems so suitable and so important that we should take time out to commune with Him.

        “An hour spent with God is worth a lifetime with man.” This hour will govern the day. The influence of family worship is wonderful on the whole household. It seems to anchor each heart to the truth for the day. It girds up the loins of the mind for work for God and man. It prepares us te resist temptation, to endure trials, and not to be drawn away by success. We go forth from this Divine granary to sow the seed of truth during the day.