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Maintain communion with Him even as you commune with your own heart. When you are alone, you need not truly be alone, for the Father is with you, and you can be with Him. Solitude can bring temptations, which require vigilance; Satan tempted our Saviour when He was alone in the wilderness. But solitude also offers opportunities—if we learn to use them—for devout and divine contemplation, the best kind of conversation.
In such moments, we may find ourselves never less alone than when alone. When we sit in silence, withdrawn from business and distractions, we have the opportunity to fill those quiet minutes with pious meditations on God and heavenly things. By doing so, we redeem the fragments of time that might otherwise be lost, and we are found waiting on God all the day.
Secondly, let me offer some motives to persuade you to live a life of communion with God by waiting on Him all the day.
1. Consider that the eye of God is always upon you. When we are with our superiors and notice them watching us, it prompts us to pay attention to them. Shall we not then look up to God, whose eyes always behold, and whose eyelids test the children of men?
He sees all the movements of our hearts and takes pleasure in those movements of our hearts towards Him. This should encourage us to keep Him always before us.
A servant, though careless at other times, will remain attentive and diligent when under his master's watchful eye. How much more should we remain diligent, knowing that God is always watching? Let