Bunyan: pray and read

Tuesday, August 31, 2021
    Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651
    Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725
    Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688
Meditation:
    Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God.
    —John 13:3 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Read and read again, and do not despair of help to understand the will and mind of God therein, though you think they are fast locked up from you. Neither trouble your heads though you have not commentaries and expositions; pray and read, and read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men. Also, what is from men is uncertain, and is often lost and tumbled over and over by men; but what is from God is fixed as a nail in a sure place... There is nothing that so abides with us as what we receive from God; and the reason why Christians at this day are at such a loss as to some things is, that they are contented with what comes from men’s mouths, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things. Things we receive at God’s hands come to us as truths from the minting house, though old in themselves, yet new to us. Old truths are always new to us if they come with the smell of Heaven upon t hem.
    ... John Bunyan (1628-1688), Christ a Complete Saviour [1692] The Whole Works of John Bunyan, v. I, London: Blackie, 1862, p. 238 (see the book)
    See also John 13:3; Ps. 121:1-2; Jer. 31:33-34; Matt. 6:25-34; 1 John 4:4-5
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me understanding of Your word. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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