Monthly archives: February, 2019

Take Time

February 28, 2019 jakin7

“Take time. Give God time to reveal Himself to you. Give yourself time to be silent and quiet before Him, waiting to receive, through the Spirit, the assurance of His presence with you, His power working in you.

 

 

 

Take time to read His Word as in His presence, that from it you may know what He asks of you and what He promises you.

 

                                       

Let the Word create around you, create within you a holy atmosphere, a holy heavenly light, in which your soul will be refreshed and strengthened for the work of daily life.

From The Secret of Adoration – Andrew Murray (1828-1917)

 

 

The Other Way

February 27, 2019 jakin7

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce (1759-1833)

 

 

Thou Shalt Not Play

February 4, 2019 jakin7

Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and his reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of personal depravity seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that he was a Sabbath-breaker. Secondly, that he was a “gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners” -or (to draw aside the veil of Elizabethan English that makes it sound so much more respectable) that he ate too heartily, drank too freely, and kept very disreputable company, including grafters of the lowest type and ladies who were no better than they should be.

For nineteen and a half centuries, the Christian Churches have laboured,

not without success, to remove this unfortunate impression made by their Lord and Master. They have hustled the Magdalens from the Communion-table,

founded Total Abstinence Societies in the name of him who made the water wine,

and added improvements of their own, such as various bans and anathemas upon dancing and theatre-going.

And, feeling that the original Sabbath commandment “Thou shalt not work” was rather half-hearted, have added to it the new commandment, “Thou shalt not play.”

 -Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957) from Unpopular Opinions (1946)