Bunyan: starting the day right

Wednesday, August 31, 2022
    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] will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
    —1 Corinthians 1:8 (NIV)
Quotation:
    For thee, who professest the name of Christ, do thou depart from all these things; do thou make conscience of reading and practising; do thou follow after righteousness; do thou make conscience of beginning the day with God; for he that begins it not with him will hardly end it with him; he that runs from God in the morning will hardly find him at the close of the day; nor will he that begins with the world and the vanities thereof, in the first place, be very capable of walking with God all the day after. It is he that finds God in his closet that will carry the savour of him into his house, his shop, and his more open conversation.
    ... John Bunyan (1628-1688), The Whole Works of John Bunyan, v. II, London: Blackie, 1862, p. 537 (see the book)
    See also 1 Cor. 1:8; Ps. 5:3; 88:13; Matt. 6:6; Eph. 5:25-27; Phil. 2:14-16; 2 Pet. 3:14
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I seek You in the morning. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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