Good morning! Happy Monday! 📖🌻☕
We’re reading together this morning in 2 Corinthians 7–we see from Paul’s language in this letter what a change has been transpiring in the church at Corinth. We consider the difference between godly sorrow and worldly sorrow. We add verse 11 onto our scripture memory passage, so Psalm 103: 1-11 this week. Our scripture writing passage for this day is Isa. 52:7-10…the good news of salvation in the person of Jesus (lit. “Jehovah is salvation”).
Streams in the Desert we read about “The Second Coming”…an excellent meditation in light of considering the first coming/advent of Jesus this month. Tozer today is “Lovingly Truthful”, asking us to be the same…to be always truthful in all contexts and with all contacts. Otherwise we’ll be soon experiencing the “winter of our discontent”. The soul can never be at peace in deceit.
Spurgeon, in Faith’s Checkbook, writes about going “Through, Not Engulfed”–“tried we must be, but triumphant we shall be”. The Lord is equal to any trial of life.
We finish today with 1 Peter 1:8-9 as our scripture prayer, speaking of the coming of Christ, “whom having not seen, ye love”, and our hymn text correlates directly with this–“Joy Unspeakable and Full of Glory” by Barney E. Warren. How appropriate that this word “unspeakable” only occurs a select few times in the Bible, the first of which is speaking of Jesus’ advent: “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift” (2 Cor. 9:15).
Listen here: https://anchor.fm/thequietrestpodcast/episodes/Quiet-Time-Corner-December-6–2021-Ep–224-e1b9b69