ten Boom: what to worry about

Saturday, October 29, 2022
    Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885
Meditation:
    Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
    —James 1:22 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Don’t worry about what you do not understand of the Bible. Worry about what you do understand and do not live by.
    ... Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), Clippings from My Notebook: writings of and sayings collected, Nashville: T. Nelson, 1982, p. 53 (see the book)
    See also Jas. 1:22; Matt. 15:3-6; Luke 11:28; John 5:39-40; Rom. 2:13; 2 Pet. 3:15-16; 1 John 2:3
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You convict me in my neglect of Your commands. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Leighton: love will stammer

Friday, October 28, 2022
    Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles
Meditation:
    Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
    —1 Peter 1:3-5 (NIV)
Quotation:
    What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb.
    ... Robert Leighton (1611-1684), A Practical Commentary Upon the First Epistle of St. Peter, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1849, p. 45 (see the book)
    See also 1 Pet. 1:3-5; Ps. 34:1-3; Isa. 32:1-4; Col. 1:27
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are always greater than my praise. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Gossip: our work

Thursday, October 27, 2022
Meditation:
    Do not put out the Spirit’s fire...
    —1 Thessalonians 5:19 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Most of us in the Church ... still believe mainly in fuss and noise and crowding and organization and machinery. If things drag, we evolve some other type of meeting... There may be no spiritual outcome whatsoever, but we are pleasantly tired, and there is a wind blowing in our faces and so we have the sense something is being done. So long as we are hot and perspiring, are talking and meeting, are bustled and rushed, we feel that things are happening, for we trust in efficiency and busyness, and a certain material capacity far more than in the Holy Spirit.
    ... A. J. Gossip (1873-1954), The Galilean Accent, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1926, p. 76 (see the book)
    See also 1 Thess. 5:19; John 14:16-17,25-26; 15:26; Eph. 2:22; 5:18; 6:18
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, do not allow Your people to be deceived. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Rutledge: the greatest reward

Wednesday, October 26, 2022
    Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899
    Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664
Meditation:
Sons are a heritage from the LORD,
    children a reward from him.
    —Psalm 127:3 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The greatest reward is the gift unearned.
    ... John Rutledge, from a paraphrase of Ps. 127
    See also Ps. 127:3-5; Luke 6:35; Heb. 10:34; 12:28; 2 Pet. 1:10-11
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You pour out gifts to the undeserving. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Griffith: commitment

Tuesday, October 25, 2022
    Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285
Meditation:
    So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.
    —1 Peter 4:19 (NIV)
Quotation:
    In religion, we are not asked to make up our minds, we are asked to make up our lives... We may refuse to make up our minds, but our lives get made up, one way or the other... Whatever we believe with our minds, our lives are committed either to God’s way or to the God-denying way, and what matters in religion is the act of commitment.
    ... A. Leonard Griffith (1920-2019), Barriers to Christian Belief, New York: Harper & Row, 1962, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962, p. 190-192 (see the book)
    See also 1 Pet. 4:19; Ps. 31:5; 86:11; 119:30; 3 John 1:3-4
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may I choose Your ways consistently. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Carmichael: not turned away

Monday, October 24, 2022
Meditation:
Praise be to God,
    who has not rejected my prayer
    or withheld his love from me!
    —Psalm 66:20 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The day may bring many strange things to us, perplexing or painful or disappointing; but this stands strong: our prayer has not been turned away, nor His loving kindness.
    ... Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), Edges of His Ways [1955], London: SPCK, 1957, p. 105 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 66:20; 51:11; 86:13; 136; Eph. 4:30
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a heart to reflect Your love. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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van Ruysbroeck: setting aside self-will

Sunday, October 23, 2022
Meditation:
    Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.”
    —Matthew 16:24-25 (NIV)
Quotation:
    From the renunciation of self-will springs patience; for none can be perfectly patient in all things save the man who has subjected his own will to the will of God, and also in all profitable and seemly things, to the will of all other men.
    ... Jan van Ruysbroeck (1293-1381), Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, I.xv (see the book)
    See also Matt. 16:24-25; Mark 8:34-35; Luke 9:23-24; John 12:25; Rom. 8:12-13; 12:1-2; 14:17-18; Gal. 5:16-17; 6:9; Phil. 2:4; Col. 3:5,12-13; 1 Pet. 4:1-2
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, align me with Your will. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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