CQOD: 07/10/06 -- Jones: victorious living

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 10, 2006Meditation:
    I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
    -- John 16:33 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake—a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. And therefore the action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
    ... E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973), Victorious Living [1936]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I confess that I sometimes cannot see the victory in my life. Remind me always that it is Your victory, not mine.

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