CQOD: 11/24/07 -- Barclay: willful indifference

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 24, 2007Meditation:
    And they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth."
    -- Revelation 5:9,10 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
    ... William Barclay (1907-1978), The Revelation of John [1961] (Vol.II)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may Your kingdom come; may mine go.

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CQOD: 11/23/07 -- Brunner: eternal life

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 23, 2007

Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100

Meditation:
    Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
    -- Romans 6:8 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Eternal life is not an unending continuance of this life—that would, perhaps, be Hell—but Eternal Life is quite a different life, divine, not mundane; perfect, not earthly; true life, not corrupt half-life. We cannot form a conception of Eternal Life. What we imagine is ever simply of the earth, temporal, worldly. Nor could we know anything about our eternal life if it had not appeared in Jesus Christ. In him we realize that we were created for the eternal life. If we ask, what is this eternal life? what sense is there in thinking about it if we can have no conception of it?, the answer is, “It is life with God, in God, from God; life in perfect fellowship.” Therefore it is a life in love, it is love itself. It is a life without the nature of death and sin, hence without sorrow, pain, anxiety, care, misery. To know this suffices to make one rejoice in eternal life. If there were no eternal life, this life of time would be without meaning, goal, or purpose, without significance, without seriousness and without joy. It would be nothing. That our life does not end in nothing, but that eternal life awaits us, is the glad message of Jesus Christ. He came to give us this promise as a light in this dark world. A Christian is a man who has become certain of eternal life through Jesus Christ.
    ... Emil Brunner (1889-1966), Our Faith [1936]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, my life is hidden in You.

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CQOD: 11/22/07 -- Lewis: the unwritten confession

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 22, 2007

Thanksgiving (U.S.)Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230
Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963

Meditation:
    As it is written: "God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you." Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.
    -- Romans 2:24,25 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The sort of love I have been describing... can also be felt for bodies that claim more than a natural affection: for a Church or (alas) a party in a Church, or for a religious order. This terrible subject would require a book to itself. Here it will be enough to say that the Heavenly Society is also an earthly society. Our (merely natural) patriotism towards the latter can very easily borrow the transcendent claims of the former and use them to justify the most abominable actions. If ever the book which I am not going to write is written, it must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom’s specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery. Large areas of “the World” will not hear us till we have publicly disowned much of our past. Why should they? We have shouted the name of Christ and enacted the service of Moloch.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), The Four Loves [1960]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, forgive us the wrongs we have done in Your name.

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CQOD: 11/21/07 -- Thomas à Kempis: the requirement of faith

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November 21, 2007Meditation:
    He said, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, 'though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.'"
    -- Luke 8:10 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. If thou understandest not... the things which are beneath thee, how shalt thou comprehend those which are above thee? Submit thyself unto God, and humble thy sense to faith, and the light of knowledge shall be given thee, as shall be profitable and necessary unto thee.
    ... Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), Of the Imitation of Christ, IV.xviii. [1418]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, show me the ways in which I must walk that I may have knowledge of You.

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CQOD: 11/20/07 -- Tozer: the means and the end

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 20, 2007

Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870
Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876

Meditation:
    Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him? For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
    -- Romans 11:34-36 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God himself.
    ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may I know You all my days!

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CQOD: 11/19/07 -- Denney: for the Kingdom of Heaven

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November 19, 2007

Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680
Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231
Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280

Meditation:
    Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need; rescue me from those who pursue me, for they are too strong for me. Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name. Then the righteous will gather about me because of your goodness to me.
    -- Psalm 142:6,7 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.
    ... James Denney (1856-1917)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I cry to You out of need.

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CQOD: 11/18/07 -- Hall: how to count your life

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 18, 2007Meditation:
    Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
    -- 1 Thessalonians 5:1,2 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, to number not his years but his days. [And so, those] that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.
    ... Bp. Joseph Hall (1574-1656)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, every day with You is blessed.

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CQOD: 11/17/07 -- Kierkegaard: holding on to sin

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 17, 2007

Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200

Meditation:
    But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud. "There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."
    -- Isaiah 57:20,21 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin.
    ... Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays [1849]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Help me, Lord, to let go of my sin.

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CQOD: 11/16/07 -- Fuller: the unity of the Bible

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 16, 2007

Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093
Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240

Meditation:
    The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."
    -- Isaiah 40:7,8 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    This idea of the Bible’s unity is not a concept which is imposed upon the Bible because of the dogmatic assertion that it is verbally inspired. To the contrary, it is inherent in the Bible, for the Bible declares itself to be the Word of God. If it be the Word of God, its various teachings should all form a coherent unity. This presupposition of the Bible’s unity provides a test for the validity of a system of interpretation: if the system is not able to demonstrate the Bible’s unity, it must be an inadequate system.
    ... Daniel P. Fuller (b.1925), Gospel and law: contrast or continuum? : The hermeneutics of dispensationalism and covenant theology [1980]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Your word, Lord, is true and righteous.

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CQOD: 11/15/07 -- Maurice: waking up

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 15, 2007Meditation:
    Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
    -- Ezekiel 37:4-6 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    When the bones have become most dry, when they are lying most scattered and separate from each other, there is still a word going forth—from Him who liveth for ever and ever—the voice which says, “These bones shall rise.” All struggles after union, though they may be of the most abortive kind, though they may produce fresh sects and fresh divisions, though they must do so as long as they rest on the notion that unity is something visible and material, yet indicate a deep and divine necessity which men could not be conscious of in their dreams if they were not beginning to wake.
    ... F. D. Maurice (1805-1872), Prophets and Kings [1853]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You breathe life into all the dead things in the universe.

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CQOD: 11/14/07 -- Law: vengeance is Mine

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November 14, 2007

Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796

Meditation:
    Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
    -- Romans 12:19 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    Here you have the true reason why revenge or vengeance is not allowed to man: it is because vengeance can only work in the evil or disordered properties of fallen nature. But man, being himself a part of fallen nature and subject to its disordered properties, is not allowed to work with them, because it would be stirring up evil in himself, and that is his sin of wrath or revenge. God therefore reserves all vengeance to Himself, not because wrathful revenge is a temper or quality that can have any place in the holy Deity, but because the holy supernatural Deity, being free from all the properties of nature, whence partial love and hatred spring, and being in Himself nothing but an infinity of love, wisdom, and goodness, He alone knows how to overrule the disorders of nature, and so to repay evil with evil, that the highest good may be promoted by it.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), The Spirit of Love [1752-4]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You bring all good out of evil.

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