Fenelon: leave the future to God

Saturday, March 9, 2024
Meditation:
    Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
    —Matthew 6:34 (KJV)
Quotation:
    Sufficient for every day is the good and the evil thereof. This daily doing of the will of God is the coming of his kingdom within us, and at the same time our daily bread. We should be faithless indeed, and guilty of heathen distrust, did we desire to penetrate the future, which God has hidden from us; leave it to Him: let Him make it short or long, bitter or sweet; let Him do with it even as it shall please Himself.
    ... François Fénelon (1651-1715), Spiritual Progress: or, Instructions in the Divine Life of the Soul, New York: M. W. Dodd, 1853, p. 79 (see the book)
    See also Matt. 6:34; Ps. 37:3; 55:22; Luke 12:28-31; John 14:27; 16:33; 2 Cor. 12:9; 1 Thess. 3:8; 1 Pet. 5:7
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I place all concerns for the future in Your hands. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Studdert Kennedy: the meaning of history

Friday, March 8, 2024
    Commemoration of Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, Priest, Poet, 1929
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
    —Mark 10:45 (NIV)
Quotation:
    In the Cross, God gathers up all history into a movement of time, and shows to us the meaning of it. It is the act in time which reveals to us the eternal activity of suffering and redeeming love all down the ages.
    ... G. A. Studdert Kennedy (1883-1929), The Hardest Part, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919, p. 62 (see the book)
    See also Mark 10:45; 1 Cor. 6:19-20; Gal. 2:20; 1 Tim. 2:5-6
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have rescued me from certain destruction. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Tozer: prayer life

Thursday, March 7, 2024
    Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203
Meditation:
    So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
    —Galatians 5:16 (NIV)
Quotation:
    A satisfying prayer life... elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. Such prayer can only be the result of a life lived in the Spirit...
    In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.
    ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Root of the Righteous, Christian Publications, 1955, p. 81 (see the book)
    See also Gal. 5:16; Ps. 46:1; 119:11; John 6:63; 14:26; 15:7,16; 2 Cor. 3:6; Rom. 8:14; Gal. 5:25; Eph. 5:18; Col. 3:16; 1 Thess. 5:19; 1 John 2:27; 2 John 1:2
Quiet time reflection:
    Are there areas of my life that I do not open to the Spirit? CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Bounds: of prayer

Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Meditation:
    Therefore honor God with your body.
    —1 Corinthians 6:20b (NIV)
Quotation:
    Prayer does not stand alone. It is not an isolated performance. Prayer stands in closest connection with all the duties of an ardent piety. It is the issuance of a character which is made up of the elements of a vigorous and commanding faith. Prayer honours God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid... To pray well is to do all things well.
    ... E. M. Bounds (1835-1913), Purpose in Prayer, New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1920, p. 96 (see the book)
    See also 1 Cor. 6:20; Isa. 26:13; Hos. 6:6; 1 Tim. 1:17; Heb. 4:16; Jude 1:20; Rev. 4:11
Quiet time reflection:
    Am I living the way I pray? CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Spurgeon: practical atheists

Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Meditation:
    [The LORD:] “But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the LORD; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out.”
    —Numbers 32:23 (NIV)
Quotation:
    I hold that secret sin, if any thing, is the worst of sin; because secret sin implies that the man who commits it has Atheism in his heart. You will ask how that can be. I reply, he may be a professing Christian, but I shall tell him to his face that he is a practical Atheist, if he labors to keep up a respectable profession before man, and then secretly transgresses. Why, is not he an Atheist, who will say there is a God, yet at the same time thinks more of man than he does of God? Is it not the very essence of Atheism—is it not a denial of the divinity of the Most High when men lightly esteem him and think more of the eye of a creature than of the observation of their Creator? There are some who would not, for the life of them, say a wicked word in the presence of their minister, but they can do it, knowing God is looking at them. They are Atheists. There are some who would not trick in trade for all the world if they thought they should be discovered, but they can do it while God is with them; that is, they think more of the eye of man than of the eye of God; and they think it worse to be condemned by man than to be condemned by God. Call it by what name you will, the proper name of that is practical Atheism.
    ... Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon of London, third series, New York: Sheldon, Blakeman and Co., 1857, p. 171-172 (see the book)
    See also Num. 32:23; Ps. 19:12; Jer. 23:24; Matt. 6:24; Luke 11:23; 16:13; Rom. 6:16; Jas. 4:4; 1 John 2:15-16
Quiet time reflection:
    Am I excusing a secret sin? CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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de Sales: dryness

Monday, March 4, 2024
    Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647
Meditation:
    Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
    —Philippians 3:13b-14 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Amid all our dryness let us never grow discouraged, but go steadily on, patiently waiting the return of better things; let us never be misled to give up any devout practices because of it, but rather, if possible, let us increase our good works, and if we cannot offer liquid preserves to our Bridegroom, let us at least offer Him dried fruit—it is all one to Him, so long as the heart we offer be fully resolved to love Him.
    ... François de Sales (1567-1622), Introduction to the Devout Life [1609], London: Rivingtons, 1876, IV.xiv, p. 338 (see the book)
    See also Phil. 3:13-14; Ps. 31:22; 77:7-9; Isa. 35:3-4; Matt. 10:22; Luke 18:1-8; Rom. 2:7; 8:24-25; 1 Cor. 9:24-25; 1 Thess. 5:14; Heb. 10:36; 12:1-3,11-13; Jas. 1:2-3; 5:10-11
Quiet time reflection:
    Are there areas where I have not persevered? CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Teresa: love letters

Sunday, March 3, 2024
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
    —John 3:16 (NIV)
Quotation:
    We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world.
    ... Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) (1910-1997)
    See also John 3:16; Ps. 117:1-2; 136; Rom. 5:8; 8:32; 2 Cor. 3:3; 5:18-21; Tit. 3:4; 1 John 4:9-10,19
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your people praise You for your mercy and love. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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