He knelt down on his knees…and prayed
as was his custom since early days.
Daniel 6:10
In one region of Africa, the first converts to Christianity were very diligent about praying. In fact, the believers each had their own special place outside the village where they went to pray in solitude. The villagers reached these “prayer rooms” by using their own private footpaths through the brush. When grass began to grow over one of these trials, it was evident that the person to whom it belonged was not praying very much.
Because these new Christians were concerned for each other’s spiritual welfare, a unique custom sprang up. Whenever anyone noticed an overgrown “prayer path,” he or she would go to the person and lovingly warn, “Friend, there’s grass on your path!”
Have you met with the Lord yet today? Do you regularly come to “the throne of grace” to “obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need? (Hebrew 4:16). Is there “grass on your path”?
No day is well spent without spending time with God.
