CQOD: 03/25/06 -- Warfield: how to think of God

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 25, 2006

Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary

Meditation:
    I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
    -- Exodus 20:2 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The Old Testament does not occupy itself with how Israel thought of God. Its concern is with how Israel ought to think of God. To it, the existence of God is not an open question, nor His nature, nor the accessibility of knowledge of Him. God Himself has taken care of that He has made Himself known to His people, and their business is not to feel after Him if haply they may fumblingly find Him, but to hearken to Him as He declares to them what and who He is. The fundamental note of the Old Testament, in other words, is revelation. Its seers and prophets are not men of philosophic mind, who have risen from the seen to the unseen and, by dint of much reflection, have gradually attained to elevated conceptions of Him who is the Author of all that is. They are men of God whom God has chosen, that He might speak to them and, through them, to His people. Israel has not, in and by them, created for itself a God: God has, through them, created for Himself a people.
    ... Benjamin B. Warfield (1851-1921)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, in Your mercy, You have shown Yourself to us in Jesus Christ.

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CQOD: 03/24/06 -- Carlyle: the terms of the call

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 24, 2006

Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953

Meditation:
    And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." And when Paul[a] had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
    -- Acts 16:9-10 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Supply-and-demand,—alas! For what noble work was there ever yet any audible demand in that poor sense? The man of Macedonia, speaking in vision to the Apostle Paul, “Come over and help us,” did not specify what rate of wages he would give.
    ... Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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Quiet time reflection:
    May I give the Gospel as freely as I received it.

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CQOD: 03/23/06 -- Tozer: solitude

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 23, 2006Meditation:
    Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
    -- Ps. 4:4 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength, before going out to face the world again. “The thoughtful soul to solitude retires,” said the poet * of other and quieter times; but where is the solitude to which we can retire today? “Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still,” is a wise and healing counsel; but how can it be followed in this day of the newspaper, the telephone, the radio and television? These modern playthings, like pet tiger cubs, have grown so large and dangerous that they threaten to devour us all. What was intended to be a blessing has become a positive curse. No spot is now safe from the world’s intrusion. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today. What the world will do about it is their problem. Apparently the masses want it the way it is, and the majority of Christians are so completely conformed to this present age that they, too, want things the way they are. They may be annoyed a bit by the clamor and by the goldfish-bowl existence they live, but apparently they are not annoyed enough to do anything about it.
    ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), Of God and Men [1960]

* from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, stanza IV

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me stillness, that I might hear You.

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CQOD: 03/22/06 -- Dunstan: reconciliation

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 22, 2006Meditation:
    Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
    -- Romans 11:13-15 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The reconciliation of man to God begins when God accepts the child of man, exactly as he is, into a relationship with himself—“this grace wherein we stand.” This He does for the sake of what man is to inherit, to become. And for the means, He gives him over to a Person, Christ, and a community, the Church; and in attachment to these, personality grows, freedom is attained, sin is forgiven, estrangement is ended, capacities for relationship extend. Reconciliation is the Spirit’s liberating work of love, exercised through a Person and a community of persons.
    ... G. R. Dunstan

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant reconciliation to _____ and _____, for Jesus' sake.

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CQOD: 03/21/06 -- Moule: valuing man

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 21, 2006Meditation:
    O LORD, our Lord,
        how majestic is your name in all the earth!
    You have set your glory above the heavens.
        Out of the mouth of babes and infants,
    you have established strength because of your foes,
        to still the enemy and the avenger.
    When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
        the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
    what is man that you are mindful of him,
        and the son of man that you care for him?
    Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
        and crowned him with glory and honor.
    You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
        you have put all things under his feet,
    all sheep and oxen,
        and also the beasts of the field,
    the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
        whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
    O LORD, our Lord,
        how majestic is your name in all the earth!
    -- Psalm 8 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    As against Thee, as without Thee, man is a thing of naught; ... as of Thee, man is a pearl of price, the reflection of Thy own personal infinity, the child and heir of immortality. He was formed in Thy creative counsels, O Thou Lover of man, to transcend death forever, and to persist, not in a part of his being only, but in its indissoluble ideal whole, unto the life of the world to come.
    ... Handley C. G. Moule (1841-1920)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I was nothing till You breathed eternal life into me.

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CQOD: 03/20/06 -- Tauler: cold, modern hearts

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 20, 2006

Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687

Meditation:
    But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
    -- 1 Peter 4:13-14 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    It is no longer the fashion to suffer for the sake of God, and to bear the Cross for Him; for the diligence and real earnestness, that perchance were found in man, have been extinguished and have grown cold; and now no one is willing any longer to suffer distress for the sake of God.
    ... Johannes Tauler (ca. 1300-1361)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, place Your holy fire in my heart.

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