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Meditations of the day

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FineLinen

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"The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims." ~Eugene H. Peterson

"To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes." ~Eugene H. Peterson
 
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"Having your spiritual radar up in constant anticipation of His presence- even in the midst of the joyful chaos and regular rhythms of your everyday living- is paramount in hearing God, because sometimes the place and manner you find Him is the least spectacular you'd expect." ~Priscilla Shirer

"We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention."~Rick Warren
 
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FineLinen

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"Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us." ~Samuel Rutherford

"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines." ~Samuel Rutherford
 
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FineLinen

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"Are we to believe the same God who expends thousands of years in slowly fitting this earth for man's habitation, will only allow to man a few fleeting years, or months, or hours, as it may be, as his sole preparation for eternity?

To settle questions so unspeakably great in their issue- questions stretching away to a horizon so far distant that no power of thought can follow them- in such hot haste, does seem at variance with our heavenly Father's ways.

Is God's action outside man so slow, and within man so hurried? Is the husk of more value than the seed? Are millions of years alotted to fashioning man's earthly home, while for man's spiritual training for eternity, but a few brief years are given, and those so largely broken up by sleep, by work, by disease, by ignorance?

What should we say of allotting ten thousand years to fashioning a man's coat, or building his house, while assigning to his whole education but a few hours? ~Thomas Allin
 
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FineLinen

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"Coming into the Christ is totally His doing with zero help from our wretched contribution. You did not choose Me is ringing in my ears!

hymeis eklegomai ou eklegomai με" ~D.E. Johnson
 
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FineLinen

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~ Pierre de Chardin
 
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FineLinen

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"Any one who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as those evil people or those poor people who need our help. Nor must we search for signs of loveworthiness. Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are." ~Phillips Brooks

"God loves you without condition or reservation and loves you this moment as you are and not as you should be." ~Brennan Manning
 
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FineLinen

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"When we live with hope we do not get tangled up with concerns for how our wishes will be fulfilled. So, too, our prayers are not directed toward the gift, but toward the one who gives it. Our prayers might still contain just as many desires, but ultimately it is not a question of having a wish come true but of expressing an unlimited faith in the giver of all good things. You wish but you hope in Him." ~Henri J.M. Nouwen

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." ~Peter Marshall
 
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FineLinen

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"Compassion is not something that simply runs out of God, it is something that God is." ~A.W.Tozer

"To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself." ~A.W.Tozer
 
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FineLinen

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"Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great." ~George MacDonald

"Do not measure God's mind by your own." ~George MacDonald
 
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"God is not only King and Judge, God is Father he is indeed Father more than anything else. No father could be happy while there were members of his family for ever in agony. No father would count it a triumph to obliterate the disobedient members of his family. The only triumph a father can know is to have all his family back home. The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by and in love with God." ~Wm. Barclay
 
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FineLinen

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"This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before." ~ Karl Barth
 
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