Stott: repentance

Saturday, April 15, 2023
Meditation:
    From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
    —Matthew 4:17 (KJV)
Quotation:
    With [Jesus] the new age had dawned, and the rule of God had broken into history. “Repent,” he cried, “for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Indeed, “He went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom.”
    The Sermon on the Mount, then, is to be seen in this context. It portrays the repentance (metonoia, the complete change of mind) and the righteousness which belong to the kingdom. That is, it describes what human life and humanity look like when they come under the gracious rule of God.
    ... John R. W. Stott (1921-2011), Sermon on the Mount [1978], InterVarsity Press, 2000, p. 5 (see the book)
    See also Matt. 4:17; Lev. 11:44; Ps. 37:37; Matt. 4:23; 5:48; 6:8; 10:7; Mark 1:15; Luke 6:35-36; 1 Cor. 7:1; 13:11; Col. 1:28; 1 Pet. 1:15-16
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may Your presence and will be known to all Your people. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Taylor: the goal of faith

Friday, April 14, 2023
Meditation:
    And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”—which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
    —Mark 15:34 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Risk, as we have seen, is indispensable to any significant life, nowhere more clearly than in the life of the spirit. The goal of faith is not to create a set of immutable, rationalized, precisely defined and defendable beliefs to preserve forever. It is to recover a relationship with God.
    ... Daniel Taylor, The Myth of Certainty, Jarrell, 1986, p. 123 (see the book)
    See also Mark 15:34; Job 13:15; Ps. 22; 23:4; 44:6-7; Isa. 26:4; 2 Cor. 1:9; 10:4
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You showed us how to venture faith. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Murray: displacing the Spirit

Thursday, April 13, 2023
Meditation:
    I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?
    —Galatians 3:2-3 (NIV)
Quotation:
    I fear that if you take the preaching throughout the Church of Christ and ask why there is, alas! so little converting power in the preaching of the Word, why there is so much work and often so little result for eternity, why the Word has so little power to build up believers in holiness and in consecration,—the answer will come: It is the absence of the power of the Holy Ghost. And why is this? There can be no other reason but that the flesh and human energy have taken the place that the Holy Ghost ought to have.
    ... Andrew Murray (1828-1917), Absolute Surrender, Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1897, p. 86 (see the book)
    See also Gal. 3:2-3; Acts 8:14-17; 10:44-47; Rom. 1:17; 10:16-17; 1 Cor. 3:1; Gal. 5:6
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, send Your Holy Spirit to draw the people to You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Pink: the hands of the Lord

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Meditation:
    When I am afraid, I will trust in you.
    —Psalm 56:3 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
    ... A. W. Pink (1886-1952), in a letter, April 14, 1940
    See also Ps. 56:3; 22:9-10; 71:6; 139:14-16; Jer. 1:5; Mark 9:23-24; Luke 23:46; Rom. 1:16-17; Eph. 2:8-9; Heb. 10:35
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have granted me refuge. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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MacDonald: too much to expect

Tuesday, April 11, 2023
    Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878
Meditation:
    [The LORD:] “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to take it back to him. If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help him with it.”
    —Exodus 23:4-5 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Is not this at length too much to expect? Will a man ever love his enemies? He may come to do good to them that hate him; but when will he pray for them that despitefully use him and persecute him? When? When he is the child of his Father in heaven. Then shall he love his neighbour as himself, even if that neighbour be his enemy. In the passage in Leviticus ... quoted by our Lord and his apostles, we find the neighbour and the enemy are one.
    ... George MacDonald (1824-1905), “Love Thine Enemy”, in Unspoken Sermons [First Series], London: A. Strahan, 1867, p. 217-218 (see the book)
    See also Ex. 23:4-5; Lev. 19:18; Pr. 25:21; Matt. 5:43-48; Luke 6:27-28,35; 23:34; Rom. 12:14,20-21; 1 Pet. 3:9
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, implant Your love for my enemies within me. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Law: making man heavenly

Monday, April 10, 2023
    Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761
    Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347
    Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.”
    —John 12:24-25 (NIV)
Quotation:
    This Spirit of love, born of that celestial fire, with which Christ baptizes his true disciples, is alone that Spirit which can enter into heaven, and therefore is that Spirit which is to be born in us whilst we are on earth; for no one can enter into heaven, till he is made heavenly, till the Spirit of heaven is entered into him; and therefore all that our Lord hath said of denying and dying to self, and of his parting with all that he hath, are practices absolutely necessary from the nature of the thing.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), The Spirit of Love [1752-4], in Works of Rev. William Law, v. VIII, London: G. Moreton, 1893, p. 73 (see the book)
    See also John 12:24-25; Matt. 3:11; 5:20; 16:24; 18:3-4; John 3:3-5; Rom. 6:6-7; 1 Cor. 6:9-10; 15:31; Gal. 2:20; 5:24; 1 Pet. 2:24
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, make me fit for heaven. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Updike: Make no mistake

Sunday, April 9, 2023
    Easter
    Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945
Meditation:
    The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.”
    —Matthew 28:5-6 (NIV)
Quotation:
Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
    reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.
    ... John Updike (1932-2009), from “Seven Stanzas at Easter”, in Telephone Poles and Other Poems, New York: A. Knopf, 1963, p. 72 (see the book)
    See also Matt. 28:1-7; Mark 16:1-7; Luke 24:1-7; John 11:25; 14:19; Phil. 3:10-11; 2 Tim. 1:10; Rev. 1:18
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your resurrection is the deepest truth. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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