CQOD: 02/24/08 -- Tauler: God's way

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 24, 2008Meditation:
    The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ... But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
    -- 1 Corinthians 12:12,18-20 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.
    ... John Tauler (ca. 1300-1361), Sermons

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a heart that waits upon You.

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CQOD: 02/23/08 -- Rutherford: the trial of faith

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 23, 2008

Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155

Meditation:
    For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
    -- 1 Timothy 4:8 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy. I now see godliness is more than the outside and this world’s passments and their buskings [i.e., ornaments and fine dress]. Who knoweth the truth of grace without a trial? O how little getteth Christ of us, but that which he winneth (to speak so) with much toil and pains! And how soon would faith freeze without a cross?
    ... Samuel Rutherford (1600-1664), letter, Jan. 1, 1637

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, save us from our inclination to sin.

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CQOD: 02/22/08 -- Bounds: the needed anointing

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 22, 2008Meditation:
    As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit--just as it has taught you, remain in him.
    -- 1 John 2:27 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, and more powerful energy than earnestness or genius or thought to break the chains of sin, to win estranged and depraved hearts to God, to repair the breaches and restore the Church to her old ways of purity and power. Nothing but [the anointing of the Holy Spirit] can do this.
    ... E. M. Bounds (1835-1913), Preacher and Prayer, Publishing House of the M. E. Church, south, Dallas, Tex., 1907, pp. 93-94

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, teach us to grasp Your reconciliation.

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CQOD: 02/21/08 -- Sanday & Headlam: the Spirit groaning within us

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 21, 2008Meditation:
    In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
    -- Romans 8:26 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    As we groan, so also does the Holy Spirit groan with us, putting a meaning into our aspirations which they would not have of themselves.
    ... William Sanday (1843-1920) & Arthur C. Headlam (1862-1947), A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans [1896]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Spirit of God, grant holiness to my prayer.

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CQOD: 02/20/08 -- Newbigin: the dilemma

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 20, 2008

Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906

Meditation:
    Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners--of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life.
    -- 1 Timothy 1:15,16 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The problem of how an unholy concourse of sinful men and women can be in truth the body of Christ is the same as the problem of how a sinful man can at the same time be accepted as a child of God... Our present situation arises precisely from the fact that this fundamental insight, which the Reformers applied to the position of the Christian man, was not followed through in its application to the nature of the Christian church.
    ... Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998), The Household of God, SCM Press, London, 1953, p. 31

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, teach me to know and love Your people, as You have loved us.

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CQOD: 02/19/08 -- Packer: the one solution still

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 19, 2008Meditation:
    Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you--unless, of course, you fail the test?
    -- 2 Corinthians 13:5 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    What, after all, are the world’s deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual’s problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society’s problems are deep, but the individual’s problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.
    ... James I. Packer (b.1926), “Jesus Christ the Lord: The New Testament Doctrine of the Incarnation”, in Obeying Christ in a Changing World, J.R.W. Stott, ed., Vol. 1: The Lord Christ. London: Collins, 1977

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, in Your grace, make my faults known to me, and enable me to amend my ways.

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CQOD: 02/18/08 -- Moffatt: the least satisfied reader

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 18, 2008Meditation:
    If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
    -- 1 Peter 4:11 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    This is great literature and great religious literature, this collection of ancient writings we call the Bible, and any translator has a deep sense of responsibility as he undertakes to transmit it to modern readers. He desires his transcript to be faithful to the meaning of the original, so far as he can reach that meaning, and also to do some justice to its literary qualities. But he is well aware that his aim often exceeds his grasp. Translation may be a fascinating task, yet no discipline is more humbling. You may be translating oracles, but soon you learn the risk and folly of posing as an oracle yourself. If your readers are dissatisfied at any point, they may be sure that the translator is still more dissatisfied, if not there, then elsewhere—all the more so, because, in the nature of the case, he has always to appear dogmatic in print.
    ... James Moffatt (1870-1944), Introduction to A New Translation of the Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1935, p. v

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me the understanding of Your Scriptures.

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