CQOD: 09/23/07 -- Law: the desire for salvation

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 23, 2007Meditation:
    [Jesus:] All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
    -- John 6:37-39 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Oh plain, and easy, and simple way of salvation, wanting no subtleties of art or science, no borrowed learning, no refinements of reason, but all done by the simple natural motion of every heart, that truly longs after God. For no sooner is the finite desire of the creature in motion towards God, but the infinite desire of God is united with it, co-operates with it. And in this united desire of God and the creature, is the salvation and life of the soul brought forth.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), The Spirit of Prayer [1749]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I will never be separated from You.

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CQOD: 09/22/07 -- Hastings: everyone ought to pray

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 22, 2007Meditation:
    Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.' For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!'" And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
    -- Luke 18:1-8 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopford Brooke [Irish clergyman, 1832-1916] is right when he insists that prayer, in its plainest meaning, is a petition addressed to God. When Jesus laid the duty of petition upon his disciples, He went on to assert the reasonableness of man’s asking and God’s answering. Jesus argues along the line of reason that, if an earthly parent does the best in his power for his children, ... the Almighty and All-Wise Love, of which human love is only the shadow, will do better still for His great family; and therefore our Master teaches that men ought everywhere to pray, without fear, with hope, and without doubt.
    ... Horace L. Hastings (1852-1922), The Great Christian Doctrines [1922]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may You find faith here, within Your people.

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CQOD: 09/21/07 -- Bonhoeffer: a share in His sufferings

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 21, 2007

Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist

Meditation:
    Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?" Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times."
    -- Matthew 18:21,22 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, is the bearing of the cross. Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian’s duty to bear.
    ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Show me, Lord, whom I must forgive.

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CQOD: 09/20/07 -- Stott: a persuasive demonstration

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 20, 2007

Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871

Meditation:
    For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
    -- 1 Thessalonians 2:11,12 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Instead of always being one of the chief bastions of the social status quo, the Church is to develop a Christian counter-culture with its own distinctive goals, values, standards, and lifestyle—a realistic alternative to the contemporary technocracy which is marked by bondage, materialism, self-centeredness, and greed. Christ’s call to obedience is a call to be different, not conformist. Such a Church—joyful, obedient, loving, and free—will do more than please God: it will attract the world. It is when the Church evidently is the Church, and is living a supernatural life of love by the power of the Holy Spirit, that the world will believe.
    ... John R. W. Stott (b.1921), “Obeying Christ in a Changing World”

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me the heart to demonstrate the life of love.

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CQOD: 09/19/07 -- Reeves: the foundation of fellowship

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 19, 2007

Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690

Meditation:
    Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
    -- 1 Peter 2:10 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The primary truth about our church membership is not that we are members of a particular congregation, but that we have been born into this new race of human beings, the Christian race, which is made up of people out of every nation and tribe and class. Further, each local church is a church only in so far as it is the expression, in a particular place, of this new race that has come into the world through Christ Jesus. It is the mighty acts of God in Him that are the guarantee of our fellowship in the Church.
    ... Ambrose Reeves (1899-1980), Bishop of Johannesburg [1956]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, without You, there is no fellowship.

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CQOD: 09/18/07 -- Wilson: our good acts?

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 18, 2007Meditation:
    [Jesus:] "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men--robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
    -- Luke 18:10-14 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.
    ... Bp. Thomas Wilson (1698-1755)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, do whatever You require to get rid of my pride.

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