CQOD: 08/24/07 -- Tozer: the supernatural Book

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 24, 2007

Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle

Meditation:
    However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"--but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
    The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
    -- 1 Corinthians 2:9-16 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.
    ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), Man: The Dwelling Place of God [1966]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, cause Your Spirit to give me understanding of Your word.

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CQOD: 08/23/07 -- van Dyke: four things

CQOD: 08/23/07 -- van Dyke: four things

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 23, 2007

Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617

Meditation:
    He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
    -- Micah 6:8 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Four things a man must learn to do
    If he would make his record true:
    To think without confusion clearly,
    To love his fellow men sincerely,
    To act from honest motives purely,
    To trust in God and heaven securely.
    ... Henry van Dyke (1852-1933)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a heart that trusts You in all things.

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CQOD: 08/22/07 -- Allen: turning to Christ

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 22, 2007Meditation:
    Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer. Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Christ, who has been appointed for you--even Jesus.
    -- Acts 3:17-20 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth; but to turn to Christ is far more important than to turn to higher moral truth: it is to turn the face towards Him in whom is all moral truth; it is to turn to Him in whom is not only the virtue which corresponds to the known vice from which the penitent wishes to flee, but all virtue; it is to turn the face to all holiness, all purity, all grace. It was this repentance which the apostles preached after Pentecost.
    ... Roland Allen (1869-1947), Pentecost and the World [1917]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant that, in turning away from my sin, I may always turn to You.

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CQOD: 08/21/07 -- Gossip: silent on sin

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 21, 2007Meditation:
    [Jesus:] Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
    -- Matthew 23:23,24 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can’t help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.
    ... A. J. Gossip (1873-1954), The Galilean Accent [1926]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are the only cure for the sickness of our society.

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CQOD: 08/20/07 -- McGiffert on Bernard: Christian love in action

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 20, 2007

Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153
Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890

Meditation:
    Do to others as you would have them do to you.
    -- Luke 6:31 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them—that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven—but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.
    ... A. C. McGiffert (1861-1933), A History of Christian Thought [1932-33]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a heart that loves those who do not love me.

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CQOD: 08/19/07 -- Driver: deeper basis for unity

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 19, 2007Meditation:
    Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.
    -- Acts 8:4 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, studying the Bible and perhaps celebrating the Lord’s supper as an entity on its own, comes very much closer to Independency as Robert Browne saw it than the unholy isolationism of a prosperous suburban church, with 200 members who scarcely know each other by sight. If a sizable proportion of the Free Church ministry were enabled to become itinerant once again—not necessarily itinerant in the geographical sense, but itinerant in the complex mazes of contemporary society, fathers in God to Christian organisms evolved by the lay men and women who spend their lives in these mazes—new heart would be put into both ministry and laity, and incidentally, new impetus given to the search for Christian unity.
    ... Christopher Driver (1932-1997), A Future for the Free Churches? [1962]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, the people You have saved are salted throughout the world.

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CQOD: 08/18/07 -- Briejèr: alive and speaking

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 18, 2007Meditation:
    And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth."
    -- Genesis 1:20-22 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is very much alive and speaking to us through all things.
    ... C. J. Briejèr, letter to Rachel Carson

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You speak to us constantly through Your creation.

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CQOD: 08/17/07 -- Weil: worthwhile science

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 17, 2007Meditation:
    [Jesus] said to the crowd: "When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, 'It's going to rain,' and it does. And when the south wind blows, you say, 'It's going to be hot,' and it is. Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don't know how to interpret this present time?"
    -- Luke 12:54-56 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
    ... Simone Weil (1909-1943)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, bring me closer to You.

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CQOD: 08/16/07 -- Brunner: mysticism and rationalism

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 16, 2007Meditation:
    At this point Festus interrupted Paul's defense. "You are out of your mind, Paul!" he shouted. "Your great learning is driving you insane."
    "I am not insane, most excellent Festus," Paul replied. "What I am saying is true and reasonable. The king is familiar with these things, and I can speak freely to him. I am convinced that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner. King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do."
    Then Agrippa said to Paul, "Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?"
    Paul replied, "Short time or long--I pray God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains."
    -- Acts 26:24-29 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    By giving to Jesus Christ, the Man who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, this historical personality, the name of Lord, the Savior, we renounce all mysticism. For mysticism in the strict sense exists only where one soars above the sphere of history, and where in place of the Mediator and the historical event are put the inner word of God, the inner motions of the soul, in order to reach immediacy between soul and God, and, in the end, the identity of both. But while it is necessary to safeguard the Christian message of the Holy Spirit from the mystical misunderstanding by calling attention to its relation to Jesus Christ, it is necessary on the other hand to safeguard the message of Jesus Christ and His work from the orthodox and rationalist misunderstanding by emphasizing that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Spirit.
    ... Emil Brunner (1889-1966), The Word and the World [1931]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have revealed Yourself to our ordinary minds and experience; yet we say, by Your Spirit, Jesus is Lord.

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CQOD: 08/15/07 -- Kierkegaard: good gifts

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 15, 2007Meditation:
    Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
    -- James 1:17 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find courage to accept thy good gifts, that the sorrowful may find courage to accept thy perfect gifts. For to men there is a difference of joy and of sorrow, but for thee, O Lord, there is no difference in these things; everything that comes from thee is a good and perfect gift.
    ... Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I receive Your grace and Your gifts daily.

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CQOD: 08/14/07 -- Calvin: proving the Scriptures

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 14, 2007

Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941

Meditation:
    "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed--I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "that I am God. Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?"
    -- Isaiah 43:10-13 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Whether God revealed Himself to the patriarchs by oracles and visions, or suggested, by means of the ministry of men, what should be handed down by tradition to their posterity, it is beyond a doubt that their minds were impressed with a firm assurance of the doctrine, so that they were persuaded and convinced that the information they had received came from God... But since we are not favored with daily oracles from heaven, and since it is only in the Scriptures that the Lord hath been pleased to preserve His truth in perpetual remembrance, it obtains the same complete credit and authority with believers, when they are satisfied of its divine origin, as if they heard the very words pronounced by God Himself... Let it be considered, then, as an undeniable truth, that they who have been inwardly taught by the Spirit feel an entire acquiescence in the Scripture, and that it is self-authenticated, carrying with it its own evidence, and ought not to be made the subject of demonstration and arguments from reason; but it obtains the credit which it deserves with us by the testimony of the Spirit.
    ... John Calvin (1509-1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion [1559], i.6.2, i.7.1, i.7.5

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your word is truth.

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