Wilberforce: God reigns alone

Tuesday, October 13, 2015
    Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066
Meditation:
    How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
    —Isaiah 52:7 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Except the affections of the soul be supremely fixed on God, that unless it be the leading and governing desire and primary pursuit to possess his favour and promote his glory, we are considered as having transferred our fealty to an usurper, and as being, in fact, revolters from our lawful sovereign; if this be indeed the Scripture doctrine, all the several attachments which have been lately enumerated, of the different classes of society, wherever they interest the affections, and possess the soul in any such measure of strength as deserves to be called predominance, are but so many varied expressions of disloyalty. God requires to set up his throne in the heart, and to reign in it without a rival: if he be kept out of his right, it matters not by what competitor.
    ... William Wilberforce (1759-1833), A Practical View, Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1829, p. 163 (see the book)
    See also Isa. 52:7; 1 Chr. 16:31; Ps. 96:10; John 15:19; Rom. 10:10; 12:2; Gal. 1:10; Eph. 2:1-2; Col. 3:1-2; Heb. 3:12; 1 John 2:15; Rev. 3:20
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, call me away from those things that distract me. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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