Law: devotion

Saturday, November 4, 2023
Meditation:
    “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
    Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
    —Matthew 22:36-40 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God.
    He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life [1728], London: Methuen, 1899, p. 1-2 (see the book)
    See also Matt. 22:36-40; Deut. 6:5; 10:12-13; Mark 12:30; John 15:19; Rom. 12:2; 1 Thess. 5:15-23; 1 Pet. 4:1-2; 2 Pet. 1:4; 1 John 2:15-17
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, help me to devote my life to You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Hooker: the remedy for fear

Friday, November 3, 2023
    Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600
    Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639
Meditation:
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
    will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
    my God, in whom I trust.”
    —Psalm 91:1-2 (NIV)
Quotation:
    It is nature which teacheth a wise man in fear to hide himself, but grace and faith doth teach him where... Where should the frighted child hide his head, but in the bosom of his loving Father? Where a Christian, but under the shadow of the wings of Christ his Saviour.
    ... Richard Hooker (1554?-1600), The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, Oxford: University Press, 1841, p. 526 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 91:1-2; 46:1; 62:7-8; Pr. 14:26; 18:10; Isa. 26:20; Matt. 23:37-39; Luke 13:34-35; Heb. 6:18
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, in You alone is true security. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Glanville: the disparaging of reason

Thursday, November 2, 2023
    Feast of All Souls
Meditation:
    Every Sabbath [Paul] reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.
    —Acts 18:4 (NIV)
Quotation:
    There is not anything I know [which] hath done more mischief to Christianity, as the disparagement of Reason, under pretence of respect and favour to Religion; since hereby the very Foundations of Christian Faith have been undermined, and the World prepared for Atheism. For if Reason must not be heard, the Being of a GOD, and the Authority of Scripture, can neither be proved nor defended; and so our Faith drops to the ground like a house that hath no foundation.
    ... Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680), Philosophia Pia, London: James Collins, 1671, p. 147-148 (see the book)
    See also Acts 18:4; Ps. 46:1-3; 62:2; Pr. 3:5; Isa. 1:18; Matt. 7:24-27; Luke 6:47-49; Rom. 12:1-2; 1 Cor. 1:25; 1 Pet. 3:15
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You strengthen the reason of those who trust You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Emmons: comfort under affliction

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
    Feast of All Saints
Meditation:
Who can speak and have it happen
    if the Lord has not decreed it?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    that both calamities and good things come?
    —Lamentations 3:37-38 (NIV)
Quotation:
    We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils. This view makes them absolute and positive evils, which admit of no remedy or relief. If we view our troubles and trials aside from the divine design and agency in them, we cannot be comforted.
    ... Nathanael Emmons (1745-1840) (see the book)
    See also Lam. 3:37-38; Ex. 19:5-6; 1 Sam. 2:6-8; Isa. 51:12-13; Jer. 23:24; Amos 4:6-10; 1 Cor. 10:26
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I acknowledge that you are the author of all that is. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Whately: accustomed to blessings

Tuesday, October 31, 2023
    Reformation Day
Meditation:
    Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
    —Deuteronomy 8:11-14 (NIV)
Quotation:
    It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
    ... Richard Whately (1787-1863), New Penny Magazine, v. 1, n. 1, J. Crockford, 1861, p. 50 (see the book)
    See also Deut. 8:11-17; 6:10-16; Matt. 6:11; Luke 12:15-21
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, make me ever mindful of Your daily provision. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Luther: faith from God

Monday, October 30, 2023
    Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546
Meditation:
    For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
    —Romans 1:16-17 (KJV)
Quotation:
    It is as impossible to separate works from faith as burning and shining from fire. Be on guard against your own false ideas and against the chatterers who think they are clever enough to make judgements about faith and good works but who are in reality the biggest fools. Ask God to work faith in you; otherwise you will remain eternally without faith, no matter what you try to do or fabricate.
    ... Martin Luther (1483-1546), “Preface to the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans”, par. 15 (see the book)
    See also Rom. 1:16-17; Matt. 7:7-8; John 3:3; Rom. 3:21-22; 8:9-10; 1 Cor. 8:2; 2 Cor. 10:5; Eph. 2:8-9; Col. 2:2-4; 2 Tim. 2:23-24; Tit. 3:9; Jas. 2:20-22
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, increase my faith. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Wayland: preaching

Sunday, October 29, 2023
    Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885
Meditation:
    It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
    —Ephesians 4:11-13 (NIV)
Quotation:
    As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the patient, so the great test of preaching is that it converts and builds up the hearers.
    ... Herman L. Wayland (1830-1898) (see the book)
    See also Eph. 4:11-12; John 2:23; 8:30; 21:17; Acts 2:40-41; 4:4; 5:14; 8:12; 11:28; 13:48; 14:1; 20:28,32; 1 Cor. 1:17-18; 1 Thess. 2:4
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, strengthen the preaching of _____, so that many more may know You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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