Jones: written in reality

Saturday, June 17, 2023
    Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936
Meditation:
    Test everything. Hold on to the good.
    —1 Thessalonians 5:21 (NIV)
Quotation:
    If we believe that the Christian faith is written into the structure of reality, as well as in the pages of Scripture, then we will not only allow men to think freely but will urge them to do so. For the facts, wherever discovered, will bring men out to the same place—at the fact of Christ.
    ... E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973), The Christ of the American Road, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1944, p. 91 (see the book)
    See also 1 Thess. 5:21; Ps. 19:1-4; 34:8; 119:103; Eccl. 7:29; 8:16-17; Luke 12:57; Rom. 1:18-22; 2 Cor. 13:5-6; 1 Pet. 2:2-3; 1 John 4:1-2
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You even make doubts serve You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Richard of Chichester: each day

Friday, June 16, 2023
    Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253
    Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752
Meditation:
    All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
    —2 Corinthians 4:15-16 (NIV)
Quotation:
Thanks be to thee,
My Lord Jesus Christ,
for all the benefits which Thou hast given us;
for all the pains and insults which Thou hast borne for us.
O most merciful redeemer,
friend and brother,
may we know thee more clearly,
love Thee more dearly,
and follow Thee more nearly;
For Thine own sake.
    ... St. Richard of Chichester (1197-1253), attributed (see the book)
    See also 2 Cor. 4:15-16; Mark 12:30; Luke 11:3; John 15:15; 20:17; Gal. 4:6
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, receive my prayer. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Underhill: the capacity for suffering

Thursday, June 15, 2023
    Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941
Meditation:
... for I delight in your commands
    because I love them.
I lift up my hands to your commands, which I love,
    and I meditate on your decrees.
    —Psalm 119:47-48 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they “cannot meditate” should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.
    ... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), The School of Charity, New York: Longmans, Green, 1934, reprinted, Morehouse Publishing, 1991, p. 54 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 119:47-48; Matt. 16:24,25; Col. 3:16-17
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your love was costly. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Baxter: the same message

Wednesday, June 14, 2023
    Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691
Meditation:
    So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have.
    —2 Peter 1:12 (NIV)
Quotation:
    I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Savior and our Gospel were grown stale.
    ... Richard Baxter (1615-1691), A Treatise of Conversion, London: Nevill Simmons, 1658, p. 23 (see the book)
    See also 2 Pet. 1:12-15; Phil. 3:1; Eph. 4:4-6; 2 Tim. 1:13; 4:3; Tit. 1:9; Heb. 4:14; 2 Pet. 3:1; Jude 1:3
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have saved Your lost sheep. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Chesterton: good running wild

Tuesday, June 13, 2023
    Commemoration of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Apologist and Writer, 1936
Meditation:
    The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
    —John 10:10 (KJV)
Quotation:
    The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
    ... Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), Orthodoxy, London, New York: John Lane Company, 1909, p. 175-176 (see the book)
    See also John 10:10; Ps. 23:5; Matt. 20:26-28; Luke 19:10; John 3:17; Rom. 5:20-21; 2 Cor. 8:2; Eph. 3:20-21; Col. 2:6-7
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, the goodness of Your rule is boundless. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Carmichael: a far better thing

Monday, June 12, 2023
Meditation:
    “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”
    Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
    —John 11:21-23 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Do not forget that the answer to many prayers is “Wait,” or sometimes, “No, not that, but something else, which when you see Me, you will know was a far better thing.”
    ... Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), Edges of His Ways [1955], London: SPCK, 1957, p. 113 (see the book)
    See also John 11:21-23; Ps. 5:3; 22:1-2; 80:4; 106:15; Matt. 26:39; Luke 12:13-14; Acts 3:2-6; 2 Cor. 12:7-9
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I entrust my prayers to You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Foster: pray by grace

Sunday, June 11, 2023
    Feast of Barnabas the Apostle
Meditation:
    But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.
    —Ephesians 4:7 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives—altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. But what I have come to see is that God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture. We do not have to be bright, or pure, or filled with faith, or anything. That is what grace means, and not only are we saved by grace, we live by it as well. And we pray by it.
    ... Richard J. Foster (b. 1942), Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, HarperCollins, 1992, p. 8 (see the book)
    See also Eph. 4:7; John 6:44-45; 1 Cor. 3:1-3; 10:13; 15:10; Eph. 2:8-9; 3:16-17; Phil. 2:12-13; 1 Tim. 1:14; 1 Pet. 2:2-3; 5:10
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me Your steady hand in my prayer, so that I will not fall. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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