CQOD: 09/26/07 -- Barclay: seeing in God's light

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 26, 2007

Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942

Meditation:
    There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.
    -- Revelation 22:5 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Here is the great truth that, only when we see things in the light of God, do we see things as they are. It is only when we see things in the light of God that we see what things are really important, and what things are not. Things which seem vastly important, things like ambition, and prestige, and money and gain, lose all their value and importance when they are seen in the light of God. Pleasures and habits and social customs which seem permissible enough, are seen for the dangerous things they are when they are seen in the light of God. Things which seem evils, hardship, toil, discipline, unpopularity, even persecution, are seen in their glory when they are seen in the light of God.
    ... William Barclay (1907-1978), The Revelation of John [1961] v.II, p. 276

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Quiet time reflection:
    Thank You, Lord, for the Light of the world.

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