CQOD: 06/03/06 -- Short: conviction vs. persuasion

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 3, 2006

Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978

Meditation:
    If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.
    -- John 10:37-38 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Jesus calls us not only to repentance, to the “letting go” of the false gods we come to him with; but he goes one more difficult step farther: he also calls us to believe in him alone as the decisive, absolutely unique, once and for all, full revelation of God to man. This is extremely difficult for us, because Jesus was careful to give men no external guarantee that he was, in fact, God in the flesh. Otherwise, he realized, we would not be worshipping him, but would only be worshipping or trusting in the guarantee, whatever it might be.
    ... Robert L. Short (b.1932), The Parables of Peanuts [1968]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Though I have not seen You, Lord, I believe.

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CQOD: 06/02/06 -- Streeter: God shares our suffering

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 2, 2006Meditation:
    For he said, "Surely they are my people,
        children who will not deal falsely."
        And he became their Savior.
    In all their affliction he was afflicted,
        and the angel of his presence saved them;
    in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
        he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
    -- Isaiah 63:8,9 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    In the Old Testament, we find the idea that God enters into the sufferings of His people. “In all their afflictions, He was afflicted.” (Isa. 63:9) The relation of God to the woes of the world is not that of a mere spectator. The New Testament goes further, and says that God is love. But that is not love which, in the presence of acute suffering, can stand outside and aloof. The doctrine that Christ is the image of the unseen God means that God does not stand outside.
    ... B. H. Streeter

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Quiet time reflection:
    You are with me, Lord.

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CQOD: 06/01/06 -- Pierce: how beautiful the feet

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 1, 2006

Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165Commemoration of Angela de’Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540

Meditation:
    The steps of a man are established by the LORD,
        when he delights in his way;
    though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong,
        for the LORD upholds his hand.
    -- Psalm 37:23-24 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life—like feet—and let Him make them beautiful.
    ... Bob Pierce, founder and president, World Vision

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Quiet time reflection:
    Use my feet, Lord, for Your glory.

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CQOD: 05/31/06 -- Anderson: the seal of authenticity

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 31, 2006Meditation:
    ... The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.
    -- Luke 6:5 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    He frequently made claims which would have sounded outrageous and blasphemous to Jewish ears even from the lips of the greatest of prophets. He said that he was in existence before Abraham and that he was “lord” of the sabbath; he claimed to forgive sins; he continually identified himself, in his work, his person and his glory, with the one he termed his heavenly Father; he accepted men’s worship; and he said that he was to be the judge of men at the last day, and that their eternal destiny would depend on their attitude to him. Then he died. It seems inescapable, therefore, that his resurrection must be interpreted as God’s decisive vindication of these claims, while the alternative—the finality of the cross—would necessarily have implied the repudiation of his presumptuous and even blasphemous assertions.
    ... J. N. D. Anderson (b.1908), Christianity: the Witness of History [1969]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord Jesus, I believe that God raised You from the dead.

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CQOD: 05/30/06 -- Redwood: the cause of evil

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 30, 2006

Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906
Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933

Meditation:
    The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward. And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.
    -- Matthew 10:41-42 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    [Christ] tells us plainly, and without any qualifications, that we are involved in a war in which there is no room for neutrals. Yet people attempt to evade His statement. Generally speaking, these are the very people who are the quickest in laying the blame upon God for all the sorrow and sin in the world. They argue that He could prevent it. They excuse their own do-nothing attitude by making of evil’s apparent predominance a ground for doubt of His loving kindness. It never seems to occur to them to look for the cause in mankind.
    ... Hugh Redwood (b.1883), Live Coals [1935]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a servant's heart, that I may add a little good to the world's evil.

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CQOD: 05/29/06 -- Jowett: the higher standard

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 29, 2006Meditation:
    Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
        for in you I trust.
    Make me know the way I should go,
        for to you I lift up my soul.
    -- Psalm 143:8 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinking to our practice, or to the practice of the world around us.
    ... Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I listen in prayer for Your word to me.

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CQOD: 05/28/06 -- Brooks: the deadliest fate of all

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 28, 2006

Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089

Meditation:
    ... do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
    -- Philippians 4:6-7 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The great danger facing all of us... is not that we shall make an absolute failure of life, nor that we shall fall into outright viciousness, nor that we shall be terribly unhappy, nor that we shall feel [that] life has no meaning at all—not these things. The danger is that we may fail to perceive life’s greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to tender the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God—and be content to have it so—that is the danger: that some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with husks and trappings of life and have really missed life itself. For life without God, to one who has known the richness and joy of life with Him, is unthinkable, impossible. That is what one prays one’s friends may be spared—satisfaction with a life that falls short of the best, that has in it no tingle or thrill that comes from a friendship with the Father.
    ... Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), Sermons [1878]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your Presence gives me peace.

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CQOD: 05/27/06 -- Calvin: the limitations to civil obedience

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 27, 2006

Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564

Meditation:
    But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men."
    -- Acts 5:29 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    In that obedience which we have shown to be due the authority of rulers, we are always to make this exception, indeed, to observe it as primary, that such obedience is never to lead us away from obedience to him, to whose decrees all their commands ought to yield, to whose majesty their scepters ought to be submitted. And how absurd would it be that in satisfying men you should incur the displeasure of him for whose sake you obey men themselves! The Lord, therefore, is the King of Kings, who, when he has opened his sacred mouth, must alone be heard, before all and above all men; next to him we are subject to those men who are in authority over us, but only in him. If they command anything against him, let it go unesteemed.
    ... John Calvin (1509-1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion, iv.20.32 [1559]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, we follow You in submission.

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