Brother Lawrence: deeds or motives?

Sunday, January 13, 2019
    Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367
    Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603
Meditation:
    Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”
    I answered, “Sir, you know.”
    And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
    —Revelation 7:13-14 (NIV)
Quotation:
    [He said] that our sanctification did not depend upon our changing our works, but upon our doing that for God’s sake which commonly we do for our own. That it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards.
    ... Brother Lawrence (c.1605-1691), The Practice of the Presence of God, New York, Revell, 1895, Fourth Conversation, p. 16 (see the book)
    See also Rev. 7:13-14; Rom. 14:6; Col. 3:17,23-24; 1 Pet. 4:11
Quiet time reflection:
    Make me see, Lord, for Whom I do my work. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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