Handbook, or Short Instruction

...piety's sake, as to postpone and neglect prayer because of committed sin; likewise, that one does not need to seek You at certain places, because You are present everywhere. Now, there is one more hindrance remaining in my heart: namely, [to know] whether You also hear me at all times—whether perhaps Easter or Pentecost is a better time to pray, or whether You hear more in the morning or in the evening. But to obtain a good report Bericht: in this context, a reliable spiritual instruction or clarification concerning time, I see, LORD, through Your grace, that all times before You are as one time, and that You remain unchanging in Your eternity. Therefore, You hear Your worshippers day and night, morning and evening, even every hour and every moment.

When I wish to speak with a prince and lord, he is perhaps holding his evening meal, or is soon to be asleep, or other people are with him, and thus he cannot attend to me. But with You, LORD, it does not happen so; You do not eat, You do not sleep, nor are You hindered by all the people in the whole world. You see through all things in less than a moment; You knew all my thoughts before I was born; You have counted every hair on my head A reference to Matthew 10:30, illustrating God's intimate knowledge of the individual.. One day before You is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day A reference to 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalm 90:4, emphasizing that God exists outside of the constraints of human time.; You neither diminish nor increase; therefore You remain the...