Law: life and prayer

Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come. It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.
    “Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’”
    —Mark 13:33-36 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The short of the matter is this, either Reason and Religion prescribe rules and ends to all the ordinary actions of our life, or they do not: If they do, then it is as necessary to govern all our actions by those rules, as it is necessary to worship God. For if Religion teaches us any thing concerning eating and drinking, or spending our time and money, if it teaches us how we are to use and contemn the world, if it tells us what tempers we are to have in common life, how we are to be disposed towards all people, how we are to behave towards the sick, the poor, the old and destitute; if it tells us whom we are to treat with a particular love, whom we are to regard with a particular esteem; if it tells us how we are to treat our enemies, and how we are to mortify and deny our selves, he must be very weak, that can think these parts of Religion are not to be observed with as much exactness, as any doctrines that relate to Prayers.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life [1728], London: Methuen, 1899, p. 7-8 (see the book)
    See also Mark 13:33-37; Ex. 20:3-17; Matt. 5:44; 19:16-22; Mark 8:35; John 13:34-35; Rom. 12:1-2; 14:21; Gal. 6:2; Jas. 2:1-4; Jude 1:22
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have shown us what You want: grant me a heart to do those things. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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