Newbolt: unhelpful controversy

Wednesday, March 17, 2021
    Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460
Meditation:
    I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing.
    —1 Timothy 2:8 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Let us guard with all our might against lapsing into mere controversialists, unless God has given us special talents in that way, which we can use with fear and trembling as given us for the special defence of truth and of the Church. As we follow Him after the day of disputation up the slope of the Mount of Olives, and watch there, in the blood-red glow of sunset, and the purple of the deepening gloom, and the blackness of approaching night, Jerusalem with its individual history and palpitating heart of religious frenzy, melting into the judgment of a world, and the crash of falling kingdoms, and the winding up of final doom, how little all the controversy has become, in the face of a world’s sin and a world’s judgment! Jesus Christ was the Truth; and as the Truth, He met and laid low controversy.
    ... W. C. E. Newbolt (1844-1930), Speculum Sacerdotum, London: Longmans, Green, 1894, p. 188 (see the book)
    See also 1 Tim. 2:8; Matt. 21:23-27; 1 Cor. 6:1-2; Phil. 2:14-15; 1 Tim. 6:20-21; 2 Tim. 2:23-25; Tit. 3:9
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, unite Your people’s factions. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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