Calvin: the hope that sustains

Friday, June 12, 2009

Meditation:
    Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
    —Jude 21 (NIV)

Quotation:
    But as many things entice us to apostasy, so that it is difficult to keep us faithful to God in the end, [Jude] calls the attention of the faithful to the last day. For the hope of that alone ought to sustain us, so that we may at no time despond; otherwise, we must necessarily fail every moment.
    ... John Calvin (1509-1564), Commentaries on the catholic epistles [1551], tr. J. Owen, Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1855, p. 447 (see the book)

Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You must lift my eyes to the Cross.

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