Baillie: that the Spirit may rule

Saturday, May 14, 2022
    Feast of Matthias the Apostle
Meditation:
    Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
    —Romans 14:13 (NIV)
Quotation:
    O Thou whose tender mercies are over all Thy works, humbly and sorrowfully I crave Thy forgiveness for the sins of this day;
    For every weakening and defiling thought to which my mind has given harbour;
    For every word spoken in hastiness or passion;
    For every failure of self-control;
    For every stumbling-block which by deed or example I have set in another’s way;
    For every opportunity lost;
    For every blessing thanklessly received;
    For loitering feet and procrastinating will;
    For this ...
    And this ...
    And this ...
And grant that, as the days go by, Thy Spirit may more and more rule in my heart, giving me victory over these and all other sinful ways.
    ... John Baillie (1886-1960) & Donald M. Baillie (1887-1954), A Diary of Private Prayer, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939, p. 23 (see the book)
    See also Rom. 14:13; Luke 3:3; 17:12-19; 1 Cor. 8:9-13; 9:25; Phil. 4:6; 2 Pet. 1:5-6; 1 John 1:9
Quiet time reflection:
    Amen. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Figgis: the intolerant Lord

Friday, May 13, 2022
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
    “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets.”
    —Luke 6:22-23 (NIV)
Quotation:
    If you serve Christ, He will be content with nothing less than the whole of you. The service means taking up the Cross; being hard where others find it easy, being regarded by some as unintelligent, by others as bigoted, by others as uncharitable—for Christ’s lordship is intolerant. We are His sworn men and owe Him “life and limb and earthly worship” and service against all other lords; and we cannot reduce our faith into mere commonplace morals or respectable citizenship.
    ... John Neville Figgis (1866-1919), The Gospel and Human Needs, London: Longman’s, Green & Co., 1911, p. 153 (see the book)
    See also Luke 6:22-23; Matt. 5:11-12; 7:13-14; 10:21-23; 24:9-10; Mark 13:11-13; John 15:18-19; 16:1-2; 2 Cor. 4:8-12
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant that I may hold nothing back that You desire to use. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Tozer: eyes on God

Thursday, May 12, 2022
    Commemoration of Aiden Wilson Tozer, Spiritual Writer, 1963
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
    —Matthew 6:24 (NIV)
Quotation:
    We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.
    ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God [1948], Christian Publications, 1982, p. 95 (see the book)
    See also Matt. 6:24; 12:50; Heb. 12:1-2; Rev. 22:14
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may the eyes of my heart continually gaze on you. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Marshall: the sealed orders

Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Meditation:
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you and watch over you.
    —Psalm 32:8 (NIV)
Quotation:
You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period.
You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do.
But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset,
    and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly?
He knows the shoals and the sandbanks, the rocks and the reefs,
He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity.
Let His mighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.
    ... Peter Marshall (1902-1949), John Doe, Disciple: sermons for the young in spirit, McGraw-Hill, 1963, p. 37 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 32:8; Gen. 12:1; Ps. 23:2-3; 25:4-5,8; 107:30; 119:105; Isa. 42:16; 48:17-18; Matt. 8:24-27; John 10:3-4; 16:13
Quiet time reflection:
    You will guide me home, Lord. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Amiel: his own nothingness

Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Meditation:
When you hide your face,
    they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
    they die and return to the dust.
When you send your Spirit,
    they are created,
    and you renew the face of the earth.
    —Psalm 104:29-30 (NIV)
Quotation:
    At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of all which makes him feel his own littleness; the eternal, the infinite, perfection, therefore scare and terrify him. He wishes to approve himself, to admire and congratulate himself; and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.
    ... Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881), The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, tr. Mrs. Humphry Ward, New York: Macmillan, 1885, p. 169 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 104:29; Gen. 2:7; 3:19; Job 1:21; Ps. 90:3; Isa. 6:5
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, without Your grace, I am nothing at all. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Basil: inspiration

Monday, May 9, 2022
Meditation:
    [Jesus to the Pharisees and teachers of the law:] “Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
    —Mark 7:13 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Every word or matter ought to be accredited by the testimony of inspired Scripture. Nor ought anyone to dare to annul or add anything. For if everything which is not of faith is sin, as the Apostle says, and faith by hearing, and hearing by the word of God: everything outside inspired Scripture not being of faith is sin.
    ... St. Basil the Great (330?-379), Moralia, xxvi. & lxxix. 22
    See also Mark 7:10-13; Matt. 5:18; 15:5-6; Rom. 14:23; 10:17; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; Rev. 22:18-19
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your people hold fast to Your word. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Juliana of Norwich: Pray inwardly

Sunday, May 8, 2022
    Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417
    Commemoration of Dallas Willard, Teacher, Spiritual Writer, 2013
Meditation:
My tears have been my food
    day and night,
while men say to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”
These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go with the multitude,
    leading the procession to the house of God,
with shouts of joy and thanksgiving
    among the festive throng.
Why are you downcast, O my soul?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Savior and my God.
    —Psalm 42:3-6 (NIV)
Quotation:
    [Our Lord] saith thus: Pray inwardly, though thou thinkest it savour thee not: for it is profitable, though thou feel not, though thou see nought; yea, though thou think thou canst not. For in dryness and in barrenness, in sickness and in feebleness, then is thy prayer well-pleasant to me, though thou thinkest it savour thee nought but little. And so is all thy believing prayer in my sight.
    ... Juliana of Norwich (1342?-1417), Revelations of Divine Love, Grace Harriet Warrack, ed., Methuen, 1901, ch. XLI, p. 85-86 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 42:3-8; 116:2; Rom. 8:26; 12:12; 1 Thess. 5:17
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have sent Your interceding Spirit to pray for Your people. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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