CQOD: 10/29/07 -- Willard: knowing God's will

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 29, 2007

Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885

Meditation:
    For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
    -- Mark 8:35 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    I fear that many people seek to hear God solely as a device for securing their own safety, comfort and righteousness. For those who busy themselves to know the will of God, however, it is still true that “those who want to save their life will lose it.” My extreme preoccupation with knowing God’s will for me may only indicate, contrary to what is often thought, that I am overconcerned with myself, not a Christlike interest in the well-being of others or in the glory of God.
    ... Dallas Willard (b.1935), Hearing God [1999], p. 28

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You speak to me for Your glory.

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See Believer's Desktop Companion 2007
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