Monday, February 4, 2008
Be Encouraged by God’s Word
He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
— Galatians 3:14, NIV
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims
The fire of God, which is his essential being, his love, his creative power, is a fire unlike its earthly symbol in this, that it is only at a distance it burns - that the further from him, it burns the worse, and that when we turn and begin to approach him, the burning begins to change to comfort, which comfort will grow to such a bliss that the heart at length dries out with a gladness no other gladness can reach..."
— George Macdonald
Pray Together with Us
O God, our Father, help us to express our religion, not in outward rituals and ceremonies and conventions, but in the inner devotion of our hearts, and in the true and ungrudging service of you and of our fellow men.
— William Barclay